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WHAT  IS 
"THE   NAME"? 

OR 

"THE  MYSTERY  OF  GOD" 
REVEALED 


Written  by 

WILLIAM 

PHILLIPS 

HALL 


Mbat  is 

"Zhc  IRame "? 

WRITTEN    BY 

WILLIAM    PHILLIPS  HALL 

**1In  XTbe  IRame" 


"That  they  may  know 

Zbc  (K^wcv^  of  (5ot)  in  Cbriet, 

IN  WHOM 

are  all  the  treasures  of  wisdom  and  knowledge  hidden." 

"For  IN  HIM 

dwelleth  ALL  the  fulness 

of  THE  GODHEAD  bodily." 

Colossians  2  :*2,  9. 
(ancient  reading) 


"  For  as  many  of  you 

as  have  been 

baptized  into  CHRIST 

have  put  on   CHRIST." 

Galatians  3  :  27. 

"  If  any  one  be 

Hn  Cbrist 

there  is 

n  IRew  Creation; 

old  things  are  passed 

away;  behold,   all  things 

are  become  new." 

II.  Corinthians  5:17. 

WILLIAM  PHILLIPS  HALL 

GREENWICH  CONN, 


Copyright,  1913,  by 
WILLIAM  PHILLIPS  HALL 


TO 

"my  lord  and  my  god^' 

the  lord  jesus  christ 

'the  author  and  perfecter  of  our  faith,' 

"in  whom  dwelleth  all  the  fulness  of 

THE     GODHEAD     BODILY/^ 

this  book  is  dedicated. 


ADDBESSED 
TO 

god's  ancient  and  beloved  people  the  jews; 

who^  according  to  the  flesh,  are 
,  the  children  of  abraham  i 

AND 

TO   THOSE   WHOy  ACCORDING   TO   THE   SPIRIT, 

ALSO  ARE 

THE  CHILDREN  OF  GOD  AND  OF  ABRAHAM, 

"through  FAITH,  IN  CHRIST  JESUS" ; 

THAT  THEY  ALL  MAY  BE  ONE 

IN 

CHRIST  JESUS  THE  LORD. 


"For  we  preach  not  ourselves,  but  Christ 
Jesus  the  Lord:  and  ourselves  your  servants  for 
Jesus'  sake. 

"For  God,  who  commanded  the  light  to  shine 
out  of  darkness,  hath  shined  in  our  hearts,  to 
give  the  light  of  the  knowledge  of  the  glory 
of  God  in  the  face  (Hebraism  for  "Person") 
of  Jesus  Christ." — II.  Corinthians  4:5,  6. 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 


Preface / 

Foreword 

Some  Unusual  Questions 

A  Divine  Challenge 

A  Startling  Statement 

Can  It  Be  Possible  ? 

"  To  the  Law,  and  to  the  Testimony  " 

"  The  Oracles  of  God  " 

Parables 

Taught  His  Apostles  and  Disciples  in  Parables 

A  Most  Significant  Fact 

A  Most  Remarkable  Conclusion 

What  is  "  the  Name  "  ? 

"  The  Mystery  of  God  " 

An  Analysis  of  "  the  Name  " 

Relationship  Names   

Personal  Names 

Let  It  Now  Be  Remembered 

It  Is  Perfectly  Clear 

The  Crowning  Proof 

"  The  Promise  of  the  Father  " 

A  Divine  Intellectual  Illumination 

The  Teaching  of  the  Holy  Spirit 

Peter's  Pentecostal  Proclamation 

An  Obvious  Omission 

A  Comparison  of  Scripture  References 

11 


12  CONTENTS 

The  Full  Triune  "  Name  "  Revealed 

The  Teacliing  of  the  Spirit  of  God 

Now  Let  These  Two  Facts  Be  Distinctly  Noted 

The  True  Baptismal  "  Name  " 

The  Only  Saving  "  Name  " 

An  Unescapable  Deduction 

Pre-Pentecostal  Baptism 

A  Logical  Conclusion 

The  Solution  of  "  The  Mystery  of  God  " 

The  Final  and  Completed  Proof 

"  The  Name  "  of  "  the  Father  " 

"  The  Name  "  of  "  the  Son  " 

"  The  Name  "  of  "  the  Holy  Spirit  " 

"  The  Name  "  of  "  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  " 

"  The  Secret  of  the  Lord  "  Revealed 

"These  things  said  Isaiah,  when  he  saw  His  glory,  and 

spake  of  Him  " 

"  The  Name" 

"  The  One  Foundation  " 

The  Words  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 

"  The  Apostolic  Benediction  " 


PREFACE 

This  book  has  been  plainly  written,  so  that 
it  might  be  easily  and  clearly  understood  by 
the  most  humble  and  technically  unlearned 
reader  and  student  of  the  Bible. 

In  a  few  instances,  a  direct  translation  of 
words  from  the  Greek  text  has  been  made, 
with  a  view  to  the  most  accurate  translation  of 
the  original  in  the  light  of  the  context. 

In  some  cases,  where  the  teaching  appeared 
to  require  such  a  course,  words  have  been 
supplied  in,  and  supplemental  to,  the  text; 
but  always  in  brackets  [  ],  so  that  they 
might  be  immediately  and  always  recognized 
as  not  a  part  of  the  text. 

In  other  cases  where  explanatory  words  or 
statements  appeared  to  be  called  for  in  order 
to  more  fully  bring  out  the  truth,  such  words  or 
statements  have  been  placed  in  parentheses  (  ) , 
in  quotations,  but  not  as  a  part  of  the  text. 

13 


14  PREFACE 

Inasmuch  as  this  book  consists,  in  the  main, 
of  a  study  of  "the  Name"  of  God,  it  will  be 
well  for  the  reader,  in  order  to  a  clear  under- 
standing of  that  which  follows,  to  bear  in  mind 
two  facts: 

First,  that,  as  a  rule,  with  ancient  Israel,  as 
shown  by  the  Scriptures,  the  name  was  not  only 
the  personal  designation,  but  also  the  expres- 
sion, or  revelation,  of  the  personality. 

While  this  was  true,  to  a  greater  or  lesser 
extent,  of  the  names  of  the  Israelites,  it  was, 
and  is,  pre-eminently  and  invariably  true  of 
"the  Name"  of  God. 

A  knowledge  and  an  interpretation  of  "the 
Name"  of  God,  according  to  the  Scriptures, 
constitute  a  revelation  of  God  Himself.  "The 
name  of  God  is  not  a  thing  arbitrarily  thought 
out;  it  is  of  the  essence  of  Deity,  a  revelation 
of  Himself  and  so  self-expressive;  it  imparts 
knowledge  of  Him  and  guides  in  the  way  of 
His  service  (Micah  4:5.)" — "New  Schaff- 
Herzog  Encyclopedia  of  Religious  Knowledge," 
Vol.  8,  page  78. 

This  leads  to  the  consideration  of  the  second 


PREFACE  15 

fact  in  this  connection,  to  which  we  would  now 
direct  the  reader's  attention:  namely,  that  "the 
Name"  of  God  is  not  only  His  Personal  desig- 
nation, as  well  as  the  expression,  or  revelation, 
of  His  Personality,  but  it  is,  also,  in  a  very  true 
sense,  the  very  Essence,  or  Essential  Personality, 
of  God  Himself. 

JMany  years  ago  a  good  student  of  the 
Bible  wrote:  "Among  the  creatures,  they  and 
their  names  are  two  different  things;  but 
respecting  the  blessed  God,  Himself  is  His 
Name,  and  His  Name  is  Himself." 

One  of  our  writers  of  a  later  day  has  observed 
that  "throughout  the  Scriptures  the  Divine 
Name  stands  for  the  Divine  Person." — 
"Butler's  Present-Day  Conservatism  and  Liber- 
ahsm,"  page  117. 

"The  Name  of  Jehovah  as  equivalent  to  the 
Person  of  Jehovah,  is  represented  as  the  subject 
or  the  object  of  various  actions." — "Hastings' 
Dictionary  of  the  Bible,"  Vol.  3,  page  479. 

"Exalt  ye  the  Lord  our  God,  and  worship  at 
His  footstool;  for  He  is  holy.  Moses  and 
Aaron  among  His  priests,  and  Samuel  among 


16  PREFACE 

them  that  call  upon  His  Name;  they  called 
upon  the  Lord,  and  He  answered  them." — 
Psalm  99:5,  6. 

"The  Lord  hear  thee  in  the  day  of  trouble; 
the  Name  of  the  God  of  Jacob  defend  thee." 
—Psalm  20:1. 

In  the  Scriptures  just  quoted  it  will  be  noted 
that  the  words  "His  Name"  and  "the  Lord"; 
and  "the  Lord"  and  "the  Name,"  are  synony- 
mous— meaning  one  and  the  same  thing. 

"God  is  identified  with  His  Name  very  com- 
monlj"  in  Scripture;  or,  perhaps  we  should  say, 
the  Name  of  God  is  used  as  a  periphrasis  for 
God  Himself.  Where  God  puts  His  special 
Presence,  He  is  said  to  'put  His  Name.'  (Deut. 
12:  5;  I.  Kings  14:  21;  II.  Chron.  12:  13).  His 
Name  is  'holy  and  reverend'  (Ps.  111:9); 
'incense  is  offered  unto  it'  (JNIal.  1:11);  it  is 
'magnified  forever'  (I.  Chron.  17:24);  for  it 
the  temple  is  built  (I.  Kings  8:44)  ;  through  it 
the  godly  'tread  down  their  enemies'  (Ps. 
44:  5)  ;  the  'desire  of  men's  souls  is  to  it'  (Isaiah 
26:8).  See  also  Psalms  92:1;  96:8;  99:3; 
103:1;  105:1;  113:1;  115:1;  119:.55;  145:1,  2, 


PREFACE  '  17 

21;  148:13;  149:3.) "—"Pulpit  Commentary," 
Psalms,  page  44. 

The  Angel  of  God's  "Name"  (of  Whom  God 
said:  "My  Name  is  in  Him"),  of  Exodus  23: 
20-22;  and  "the  Angel  of  His  Presence,"  of 
Isaiah  63:9;  are  clearly  one  and  the  same;  even 
as  God's  "Name"  and  His  "Presence"  are  one 
and  the  same. 

"The  Name  of  (the  Lord)  Jesus  Christ 
embodies  the  whole  content  of  His  Person,  and 
sums  up  the  knowledge  of  Him  and  His  work." 

"The  apostles  spread  this  Name  throughout 
the  earth;  believers  rely  upon  it  (John  1:12), 
and  in  it  are  blessed  (Acts  4:12)  ;  by  it  miracles 
are  wrought  (Acts  16:18),  though  not  as  by  a 
formula  of  magic  (cf.  John  14:13)  ;  but  in  order 
to  accomplish  tliis  an  inner  connection  with  Him 
is  needful  (Acts  19:13)." 

"Baptism  is  in  (or  "into")  His  Name,  or  in 
(or  "into")  the  Triune  Name  (Matthew  28:19; 
Acts  2:38).  .  .  .  All  of  these  customs  bespeak 
an  inner  community  with  Christ  of  wliich 
baptism    is    but    the    external    expression." — 


18  PREFACE 

"New  Schaff-Herzog  Encyclopedia  of  Religious 
Knowledge,"  Vol.  8,  page  78. 

In  view  of  the  teaching  set  forth  in  the 
Scriptures  cited,  and  in  the  light  of  the 
deductions  drawn  therefrom  as  stated,  we  may 
correctly  conclude  that  to  "call  upon  the  Name 
of  the  Lord"  is  to  "call  upon  the  Lord"  Him- 
self. 

To  "believe  in  His  Name"  is  undoubtedly 
to  "believe  in  Him,"  as  revealed,  interpreted 
and  made  known  by  the  meaning  of  His  Name. 

To  be  "baptized  into  the  Name  of  the  Lord" 
is,  in  a  spiritual  sense,  to  be  baptized  into  Him, 
or  into  His  Spirit,  as  revealed,  interpreted  and 
made  known  by  the  meaning  of  His  Name. 

To  "come  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord"  is,  in 
a  literal  sense,  to  come  bearing  His  Personal 
designation:  and,  in  a  spiritual  sense,  to  come 
in  Him,  or  in  His  Spirit,  as  revealed,  inter- 
preted and  made  known  by  the  meaning  of  His 
Name;  "the  Name"  of  "the  Lord"  being,  in  a 
literal  sense,  the  Personal  designation:  and, 
in  a  spiritual  sense,  "the  Person,"  or  "Spirit," 
of  "the  Lord." 


PREFACE  19 

Therefore  as,  "according  to  the  Scriptures," 
"the  Name,"  and  "the  Person"  of  God  are 
essentially  one;  and  as  His  "Name"  is  not 
only  His  Personal  designation,  but  is,  also,  the 
expression,  or  revelation,  of  His  "Person," 
it  logically  follows  that  if  His  "Name"  be 
truly  revealed,  interpreted  and  made  known, 
so,  also,  will  be  His  "Person." 

This  book  sets  forth  such  a  revelation  and 
interpretation  of  "the  Name"  and,  consequently, 
of  "the  Person"  or  "Personahty"  of  the  Triune 
God. 


L... 


FOREWORD 

In  pubKshing  this  book  the  writer  is  fully 
aware  of  the  fact  that  he  is  presenting  an  inter- 
pretation of  "the  Name"  and  "Personality"  of 
the  Triune  God  that  cannot  be  considered 
otherwise  than  as  revolutionary  in  itself  and 
in  its  prospective  influence  upon  the  teachings 
and  practice  of  the  Christian  Church  in  all  lands. 

With  the  writer — as  is,  also,  doubtless,  the 
case  with  an  ever-increasing  number  of  Chris- 
tians who  are  determined  to  know  fully  "the 
Truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus" — tradition,  whatever 
its  alleged  source  or  its  channel,  can  be  accepted 
only  in  so  far  as  it  harmonizes  with  the  teach- 
ings of  God  as  those  teachings  are  set  forth 
and  interpreted  in  His  Holy  Word. 

Careful  readers  of  "The  Acts  of  the  Apostles" 
are  becoming  increasingly  conscious  of  the  fact 
that  that  book  sets  forth  the  history  of  a  Church 
whose  Divine  spirit,  life,  and  service  have  never 

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22  FOREWORD 

been  fully  equalled  by  the  Church  of  any  sub- 
sequent century. 

Practically  all  Christian  Church  historians 
agree  that  the  Church  of  the  Apostolic  Age 
was  possessed  of  such  an  extraordinary  measure 
of  Divine  illumination  and  empowerment  as  has 
never  since  been  known  in  the  experience  of  the 
Church  of  Christ. 

An  interpretation  of  a  command  or  teaching 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  by  that  Church,  which 
was  in  the  most  complete  and  unique  sense  of 
that  term  "filled  with  the  Holy  Spirit,"  should 
ever  be  of  commanding  authority  with  all  true 
believers  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

The  writer  has  been  dominated  by  that  con- 
viction in  the  writing  of  this  book. 

It  may  well  be  added  that  the  supreme  pur- 
pose of  this  writing  is  to  make  known  and  to 
magnify  "The  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit." 

**  M^  ptupU  HlyaU  knnm  ilg  Nam?." 
Isaiah  52:6. 


SOME    UNUSUAL    QUESTIONS 

"This  parable 

spake  Jesus  unto  them: 

but  they  understood  not  what  things  they  were 

which  He  spake  unto  them." 

John   10:6. 

Has  it  ever  occurred  to  the  reader  that  the 
Bible  contains  many  teachings  of  an  inner,  or 
hidden,  as  well  as  of  an  outer,  or  apparent, 
meaning? 

Is  it  not  a  fact  that  the  teachings — and 
especially  the  parables — of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
possess  an  inner  as  well  as  an  outer  meaning 
to  a  marked  degree? 

Otherwise  it  would  not  have  been  necessary — 
as  it  obviously  was  necessary — for  Him  to  have 
explained,  or  interpreted,  any  of  His  parables, 
or  other  parabolic  teachings,  to  His  apostles  and 
disciples. 

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24  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

Is  it  not  a  fact  that  while  the  inner,  as  well  as 
the  outer,  meaning  of  a  number  of  the  Lord's 
parables,  or  parabolic  sayings,  is  known — by 
reason  of  His  recorded  explanations  of  that 
meaning — both  the  Christian  Church  and  many 
of  the  people  of  the  world  at  large  have  been, 
for  many  centuries,  quite  in  doubt  as  to  the  inner 
meaning  of  many  of  the  parables,  or  parabolic 
sayings,  of  the  Lord,  even  up  to  the  present 
time? 

It  is  true  that  all  of  those  parables,  or  par- 
abolic sayings,  have,  at  some  time  or  other, 
been  "explained"  by  theologians;  but  how  many 
people  are  at  all  sure,  or  know,  that  those 
"explanations" — or  which  of  the  two  or  more 
"explanations"  of  the  same  parables,  or  par- 
abolic sayings — are  the  correct  ones? 

Why  did  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  speak  to  the 
Jewish  people  in  parables — in  teachings  whose 
meanings  they  could  not  easily  understand, 
and  in  many  cases  did  not  understand  at  all? 

Why  did  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  teach  even 
His  apostles  and  disciples  things  concerning 
"the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit" 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  25 

in  parables,  or  parabolic  teachings;  and  for  the 
time  being,  at  least,  leave  those  apostles  and 
disciples  in  the  dark  as  to  the  inner,  or  then 
hidden,  meaning  of  those  parables,  or  parabolic 
teachings  ? 

Did  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  ever  explain  the 
inner,  or  then  hidden,  meaning  of  those  par- 
ticular parables,  or  parabolic  discourses,  to 
His  apostles  and  disciples;  and,  if  so,  does  the 
Christian  Church  possess  the  explanation  at  the 
present  time? 

Did  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  ever  promise  His 
apostles  and  disciples  to  explain,  or  interpret, 
to  them  His  parabolic  discourses  recorded  in 
the  14th,  15th  and  16th  chapters  of  John? 

If  so,  by  Whom  and  when  did  He  state  that 
promise  would  be  fulfilled? 

What  was  "the  Name"  of  "the  baptismal 
formula"  actually  used  by  the  apostles  and 
disciples,  as  stated  by  the  writers  of  the  New 
Testament  ? 

Is  there  any  record  in  the  New  Testament 
of  the  baptism  of  a  Jew,  or  of  any  one  else, 
literally  in  the  words  "in  (or  "into")  the  Name 


26  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit"? 

Why  did  the  Jewish  people  in  such  large 
numbers  so  readily  accept  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  as  their  Lord  and  Saviour  and  Christ  at 
the  beginning  of  the  Christian  era;  and  why 
have  those  people  been  so  unresponsive  to  the 
Gospel — as  it  has  been  preached  to  them — 
ever  since  the  Apostolic  Age? 

What  was  the  original  Divine  Apostolic 
Teaching  concerning  the  Deity  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ? 

Does  the  Christian  Church  possess  and  declare 
that  teaching,  in  all  of  its  completeness,  at  the 
present  time;  or  was  that  teaching,  in  its  most 
complete  form,  lost  to  the  Church  at,  or  about, 
the  close  of  the  Apostolic  Age? 

Let  no  reader  hereof  conclude,  without  further 
consideration,  that  these  questions  and  state- 
ments are  unwarranted,  but,  rather,  let  such  an 
one  read  that  which  follows  before  forming  a 
conclusion  in  the  matter. 

The  writer  believes  that,  after  fully  reading, 
the  reader  of   this   book   will   conclude  that   a 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  27 

revolution  in  the  Church's  teaching  regarding 
the  interpretation  of  the  Deity  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  and  the  Personahty  of  the  Triune 
God,  is  not  only  possible,  but  right  at  hand! 


A  DIVINE   CHALLENGE 

Let  the  reader  now  recall  that  in  the  book 
of  the  prophet  Jeremiah  (33:3)  there  appears 
what  may  be  called  A  Divine  Challenge  from 
the  God  of  Israel  to  the  Israel  of  God: 

"Call  unto  Me,  and  I  will  answer  thee, 

AND  SHOW  thee  GREAT  AND  HIDDEN  THINGS, 
WHICH  THOU  KNOWEST  NOT/^ 

And  may  not  the  reader,  as  has  the  writer, 
in  response  to  that  Divine  Challenge,  in  the 
words  of  Psalm  119:  18,  pray: 

O  Lord,  '"open  Thou  mine  eyes,  that  i 
may  behold  wondrous  things  out  of 
Thy  law." 


28  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


A  STARTLING  STATEMENT 

Although  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  commanded 
His  apostles  and  disciples  to  "disciple  all  the 
nations,  baptizing  them  into  the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit" 
(Matthew  28:19),  neither  they  nor  the  Church 
of  the  Apostolic  Age  ever  baptized  anybody  in 
those  words  so  far  as  the  New  Testament  bears 
record!  Every  actual  baptism  recorded  in  the 
New  Testament,  where  "the  Name"  or  "bap- 
tismal formula"  used  is  stated,  was  "in  (or 
"into")  the  Name  of  the  Lord"  (A.  V.),  or  of 
"the  Lord  Jesus,"  or  of  "Jesus  Christ"  (A.  V. 
andR.V.). 

There  are  no  exceptions  recorded!  Any 
person  can  verify  the  accuracy  of  this  statement 
by  reading  Acts  2:38;  8:16;  10:48  and  19:5 
(A.  V.  or  R.  v.). 

These  verses  contain  all  of  the  records  in  the 
New  Testament  of  all  actual  baptisms  where 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  29 

"the  Name"  or  "baptismal  formula"  used  is 
given ! 

In  other  words,  there  is  absolutely  no  support 
whatever  to  be  found  in  the  New  Testament,  in 
the  record  of  "the  Name"  or  "baptismal  formula" 
used  in  any  actual  baptism,  for  the  teaching  that 
has  prevailed  in  the  Christian  Church  for  some 
eighteen  hundred  years,  that  either  the  apostles 
or  the  Church  of  the  Apostolic  Age  ever  baptized 
believers  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  the  words 
"I  baptize  thee  in  (or  "into")  the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit" ! 

Philip  Schaff,  D.D.,  in  Lange's  Commentary 
on  Matthew,  page  558,  quotes  Meyer  as  stating: 
"No  trace  is  to  be  found  of  the  employment  of 
these  words  by  the  Apostolic  Church." 

George  T.  Purves,  D.D.,  in  his  book 
entitled  "Christianity  in  the  Apostolic  Age," 
page  36,  states:  "The  first  record  of  their  use  in 
baptism  is  in  'The  Teaching  of  the  Apostles' 
(about  A.  D.  100)." 

So  far  as  historical  Christian  research  has 
shown,  the  only  authoritj^ — outside  of  the  original 
command  literally  interpreted — for  the  use  of  the 


30  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

words  of  "the  baptismal  formula":  "in  (or 
"into")  the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son, 
and  of  the  Holy  Spirit,"  is  that  of  tradition; 
descending,  it  is  true,  from  very  remote  sources, 
but  not  from  the  apostles  in  or  through  the  writ- 
ings of  the  New  Testament,  nor  from  other 
writers  of  the  New  Testament,  in  writing  of  a 
period  including  and  subsequent  to  the  day  of 
Pentecost ! 


CAN  IT  BE  POSSIBLE? 

Can  it  be  possible — as  some  scholars  have 
thought — that  the  words:  "the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit," 
are  of  later  authorship  than  any  recorded  words 
ever  spoken  by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ?  Or  that 
there  is  a  clear  contradiction  between  the  com- 
mand of  the  liord  Jesus  Christ  to  His  apostles 
and  disciples  to  baptize  "into  the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit," 
and  the  fact  that  those  very  apostles  and  dis- 
ciples according  to  all  New  Testament  record, 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  31 

as  already  shown,  invariably  baptized  all  who 
believed  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  (or  "into") 
the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ? 

Or  must  Christians  continue  to  believe — as 
they  have  been  taught,  according  to  sub- Apos- 
tolic tradition,  to  believe  for  some  eighteen 
hundred  years — that  when  the  New  Testament 
clearly  and  invariably  states,  in  the  account  of 
all  actual  baptisms  recorded  where  the  baptismal 
"Name"  or  "formula"  is  stated,  that  baptism 
in  the  Apostolic  Church  and  by  the  apostles 
was  administered  "in  (or  "into")  the  Name 
of  the  Lord,"  or  of  "the  Lord  Jesus,"  or  of 
"Jesus  Christ" — which,  in  this  connection,  are 
in  each  and  every  case,  as  we  shall  show, 
but  abbreviations  of  the  full  Name  of  "the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ" — it  was  really,  literally, 
administered  in  the  words:  "I  baptize  thee  in 
(or  "into")  the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of 
the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit"? 

Or  did  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  command  His 
apostles  and  disciples  to  baptize  in  (or  "into") 
a  certain  "Name,"  and,  notwithstanding  that 
command,  did  His  apostles  and  disciples  ever 


32  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

thereafter — all    through    the    Apostolic    Age — 
baptize  in  (or  "into")   another  "Name"? 

A  NEGATIVE  REPLY 

To  all  of  these  questions  we  reply  most 
emphatically  in  the  negative! 

The  apostle  Paul,  in  Romans  3:3,  4,  says : 
"For  what  if  some  did  not  believe?  Shall  their 
unbelief  make  The  Faith  of  God  of  no  effect? 
God  forbid:  yea,  let  God  be  true,  but  every 
man  a  liar;  as  it  is  written.  That  Thou  mightest 
be  justified  in  Thy  sayings,  and  mightest  over- 
come when  judged." 

"TO  THE  LAW,  AND  TO  THE 
TESTIMONY" 

From  ancient  times  it  has  been  the  usual 
practice  with  the  people  of  God  to  resort  to 
an  examination  of  the  teachings  of  the  Bible 
upon  any  subject  of  doubtful  meaning  of  which 
that  Book  treats. 

The  prophet  Isaiah  (8:20)  says:  "To  the 
law,  and  to  the  testimony:  if  they  speak  not 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  33 

according  to  this  Word,  it  is  because  there  is 
no  light  in  them." 


"THE  ORACLES  OF  GOD" 

Pursuant  to  the  long-established  practice  of 
the  people  of  God,  and  in  accordance  with  the 
Divine  instruction,  given  through  the  prophet 
Isaiah,  which  makes  that  practice  obligatory,  we 
shall  now  proceed,  further,  to  consult  "The 
Oracles  of  God." 

PARABLES 

The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  addressed  the  multi- 
tudes who  waited  upon  His  Divine  Ministry, 
during  a  large  part  of  that  Ministry,  almost 
altogether  in  parables:  as  may  be  noted  in 
Matthew  13:34,  where  we  read:  "All  these 
things  spake  Jesus  unto  the  multitudes  in  par- 
ables: and  without  a  parable  spake  He  not  unto 
them." 

A  careful  reading  of  the  New  Testament 
along  this  line  most  clearly  discloses  the  fact 
that  the  parables,  or  parabolic  teachings,  of  the 


34  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

Lord  Jesus  Christ  were,  in  many  cases,  very 
evidently  intended  not  only  to  teach  Divine 
truth,  but  to  teach  it  in  such  veiled  form  as  to 
require  Plis  subsequent  interpretation,  either 
by  word  of  mouth  or  through  the  Holy  Spirit, 
in  order  to  a  complete  understanding  of  the 
same. 

These  facts  are  fully  develoj^ed  in  the 
accounts  of  the  parable  of  "The  Sower"  as 
given  in  Matthew  13:1-23;  Mark  4:1-20  and 
Luke  8:4-15. 

In  these  three  accounts  we  discover  the  follow- 
ing facts:  First,  a  parabolic  teaching  of  Divine 
truth  by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  to  His  disciples 
and  the  multitudes;  second,  a  lack  of  under- 
standing of  the  same  by  the  disciples,  and 
undoubtedly  by  the  multitudes;  third,  its  pos- 
session of  both  an  outer,  or  apparent,  as  well 
as  of  an  inner,  or  hidden,  meaning;  fourth,  the 
latter  fact  being  clearly  evidenced  in  the  neces- 
sity for  and  fact  of  its  subsequent  interpretation 
by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  to  His  disciples. 

"And  Math  many  such  parables  spake  He 
the  Word  unto  them,  as  they  were  able  to 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  35 

hear  it ;  and  without  a  parable  spake  He  not 
unto    them:    but    privately    to    His    own 
disciples    He    expounded     (explained    the 
meaning  of  or  interpreted),  all  things." 
Mark  4:33,  34.  R.  V. 

Therefore  a  parable,  as  a  form  of  teaching 
used  by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  may  be  properly 
defined  not  only  as  "an  earthly  story  with  a 
heavenly  meaning,"  but,  also,  as  an  esoteric,  as 
well  as  an  exoteric,  teaching;  or  a  teaching  with 
an  inner,  or  hidden,  as  well  as  with  an  outer,  or 
apparent,  meaning. 

TAUGHT  HIS  APOSTLES 
AND  DISCIPLES  IN  PARABLES 

There  were  some  tilings,  however,  that  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  taught  even  to  His 
apostles  and  disciples  in  parables  which, 
at  the  time  of  delivery,  He  did  not  explain 
to  them,  He  deferring  their  explanation  to  that 
time  when  He,  through  the  Holy  Spirit, 
made  all  things  clear  to  them.  This  fact 
is  evidenced  in  His  words  recorded  in  John 
16:25:      "These    things    have    I    spoken    unto 


30  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

you  (His  apostles  and  disciples)  in  para- 
bles: but  the  hour  cometh  when  I  shall  no 
more  speak  unto  you  in  parables,  but  shall 
tell    you    plainly    of    the    Father." 

These  words  were  spoken  immediately  after 
He  had  spoken  the  words  recorded  in  John 
16:12-15:  "I  have  yet  manj?^  things  to  say 
unto  you,  but  ye  cannot  bear  them  now. 
Howbeit  when  He,  the  Spirit  of  Truth,  is 
come,  He  shall  guide  you  into  all  the  Truth: 
for  He  shall  not  S23eak  of  Himself;  but 
what  things  soever  He  shall  hear,  these 
shall  He  speak:  and  He  shall  declare  unto 
you    the    things    that    are    to    come. 

"He  shall  glorify  Me;  for  He  shall  take  of 
INIine,  and  shall  declare  it  unto  you.  All 
things  whatsoever  the  Father  hath  are  Mine: 
therefore  said  I,  He  taketh  of  INIine,  and 
shall  declare  it  unto  you." 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  37 


A    MOST     SIGNIFICANT    FACT 

The  reader  will  do  well  to  note  the  most 
significant  fact  that  the  parables,  or  para- 
bolic discourses,  spoken  by  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  to  His  apostles  and  disciples,  as 
recorded  in  the  Scriptures  just  quoted,  as 
well  as  all  others  recorded  in  the  14th,  15th 
and  16th  chapters  of  John,  relate  to  the 
mystery  of  the  Triune  God: — that  is,  to  the 
mystery  of  "the  Name,"  and  to  "the  Three 
Divine  Persons"  of  that  "Name":— "the 
Father,   and   the    Son,   and   the   Holy   Spirit." 

A  MOST  REMARKABLE  CONCLUSION 

Let  it  now  be  noted,  as  has  just  been 
shown,  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  told  His 
apostles  and  disciples  that  His  teacliings 
about  "the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the 
Holy  Spirit"  were  spoken  to  them  in  para- 
bles,   but    that    the    time    would    come    when 


38  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

He  would  no  more  speak  unto  them  in 
parables,  but  would  "telF'  them  "plainly  of 
the    Father." 

Did  He  "tell"  them  "plainly  of  the 
Father"  prior  or  subsequent  to  the  time 
when  He  commanded  them  to  "disci j)le  all 
the  nations,  baptizing  them  into  the  Name 
of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the 
Holy    Spirit"? 

We  believe  that  the  evidence  in  the 
case — as  herein  shown — points  unerringly  to 
a  subsequent  disclosure,  and  that  the  words: 
"the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son, 
and  of  the  Holy  Spirit"  constitute  a  para- 
bolic "formula,"  or  parable,  in  the  sense  in 
which  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  used  that,  or  its 
equivalent,  expression  in  John  16:25. 

WHAT   IS  "THE   NAME"? 

OR 

WHAT  IS  "THE   NAME  of  THE  FATHER, 

AND  OF  THE  SON,  AND  OF  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT"? 

Now  assuming,  as  already  suggested,  that 
the     so-called     "baptismal     formula" — as     con- 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  39 

tained  in  the  words:  "the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit" — is  a  parabolic  "formula,"  or  parable 
(or,  in  other  words,  a  saying  with  an 
inner,  or  hidden,  as  well  as  with  an  outer, 
or  apparent,  meaning),  we  will  carefully 
examine  and  analyze  this  "formula,"  and, 
by  so  doing,  endeavor  to  discover  its  inner, 
or   hidden,    meaning. 

In  the  first  place,  we  note  that  in  this 
"formula"  One  "Name"  only  is  mentioned — 
"the  Name";  and,  in  the  second  place,  we 
note  that  this  One  "Name"  applies  to,  is 
possessed  by,  and  includes  Three  Persons: 
"the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy 
Spirit." 

This  is  indeed — on  its  face — a  very  myste- 
rious   (or   parabolic)     saying. 

It  is  also  a  sajang  which  if  taken  in  its 
literal  (apparent)  sense — as  it  has  been 
taken  by  the  Christian  Church  for  some 
eighteen  hundred  years — certainly  involves  a 
paradox ! 

For    how    can    these    "Three    Persons"    be 


40  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

"Named"  by,  possess,  and  be  included  in 
One  "Name"?  Traditional  orthodox  theology, 
in  substance,  rephes:  "The  Three  Persons  of 
the  baptismal  formula  are  the  Three  Persons 
of  One  Divine  Essence  in  the  Godhead — 
'the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy 
Spirit' — and  all  Three  together  constitute  the 
One  Living  and  True  God:  and  their  Three 
Names — 'Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit' — all 
together  constitute  One  Name — the  Name  of 
the  Triune  God." 

It  is  most  Scripturally  true  that  there  are 
"Three  Persons  of  One  Divine  Essence  in 
the  Godhead" — "the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and 
the  Holy  Spirit" — but  does  it  necessarily, 
logicalh",  or  Scripturally  follow  that  "the 
Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and 
of  the  Holy  Spirit"  is  contained  in  the  words 
"Father,    Son,    and    Holy    Spirit"? 

It  is  true  that  for  some  eighteen  hundred 
years  traditional  orthodox  theology  has  held 
to  that  view,  at  the  same  time  confessing 
that,    as    so    expressed,    "God    is    a    Mystery." 

So    great    is    the    mystery    involved    in    this 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  41 

interpretation  of  "the  Name"  of  God  that 
it  has,  ever  since  the  Apostohc  Age,  been 
called 

"THE   MYSTERY  OF  GOD." 

Is  it  possible,  or  even  thinkable,  that,  after 
some  eighteen  hundred  years,  the  mystery  of 
"the  Name"  of  the  Triune  God  in  "the 
baptismal  formula" — which  is  pre-eminently 
"The  Mystery  of  God"— <!an  be  solved?  If 
such  solution  is  possible,  and  if  it  can  really 
be  discovered,  and  made  known  to  men,  will 
it  not  count  in  both  moral  and  spiritual 
values  for  more  than  all  of  the  discoveries 
of  man  in  all  fields  since  the  beginning  of 
human    history? 

In  case  of  the  discovery  of  such  solution, 
then  indeed  will  it  be,  at  last,  possible,  in 
the  most  complete  Scriptural  meaning  of 
that  term,  for  all  men  to  "know  the  Lord 
.  .  .  from  the  least  of  them  unto  the  greatest 
of  them";  and  then  indeed  will  it  be  possible 
for  the  earth  to  be  filled  with  "the  knowledge 
of    the    Lord    as    the    waters    cover    the    sea." 


42  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

With  these  thoughts  of  the  paramount 
importance  of  the  subject  we  have  now 
under  consideration,  we  shall  reverently,  and 
in  full  dependence  upon  the  illuminating 
grace  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  proceed  further  to 
consider  this  greatest  of  all  great  themes. 
If  it  be  true,  as  it  so  appears,  that  the  solution 
of  "the  Mystery  of  God"  is  to  be  discovered 
in  the  solution  of  the  mystery  of  "the  Name  of 
the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit,"  then  may  we  not  pertinently  inquire: 
What  is  "the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit"? 

AN  ANALYSIS  OF  "THE  NAME" 

Now  let  it  be  noted  that  the  Lord  Jesu^ 
Christ  commanded  His  apostles  and  disciples 
to  baptize — NOT  into  the  Name  Father,  Son, 
Holy  Spirit;  NOR  into  the  Name  the  Father, 
the  Son,  the  Holy  Spirit;  NOR  into  the  Name 
the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit: 
but  "into  THE  NA:ME  OF  the  Father,  and 
OF  the  Son,  and  OF  the  Holy  Spirit"! 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  43 

In  other  words,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  com- 
manded His  apostles  and  disciples  to  baptize, 
NOT  INTO  THOSE  WORDS,  but  "into  THE  NAME 
OF  Each  and  All  of  "the  Three  Persons  of 
One  Divine  Essence  (or  "Name")  in  the 
Godhead";  Whose  Divine  Relationships  are 
described,  and  Whose  Divine  Persons  are 
clearly  and  positively  implied  in  those  words! 

RELATIONSHIP  NAMES 

The  names  father,  son,  and  spirit,  as  applied 
to  man,  are  relationship  names.  No  one  would 
ever  think  of  declaring  them  to  be  personal 
names,  for  such  a  declaration  would  be  obvi- 
ously absurd! 

The  Names  Father,  Son,  and  Spirit  (Who 
is  Essentially  Holy),  as  applied  to  "the  Three 
Persons  of  One  Divine  Essence  (or  "Name") 
in  the  Godhead"  are,  also,  Relationship 
Names.  For  as  "the  Father"  is  related  to 
"His  Son"  as  "Father";  and  as  "the  Son"  is 
related  to  "the  Father"  as  "His  Son";  and  as 
"the  Spirit"  is  related  to  "the  Father"  and  "the 


44  AVHAT    IS    "the    name" 

Son,"  as  "the  Spirit  of  the  Father"  and  "the 
Spirit  of  His  Son";  so  the  Names  Father, 
Son,  and  Spirit  are  Names  of  those  Relation- 
ships. They  have  been  considered  Personal 
Names — or  the  Triune  Personal  Name  of  the 
Triune  God — only  through  a  misinterpretation, 
and  consequent  misunderstanding,  of  the  whole 
matter ! 

While  it  is  true,  as  regards  both  God  and 
man,  that  the  Names  Father,  Son,  and  Spirit, 
clearly  imply  personality  in  each,  yet  they  are 
not  Personal  Names,  but  Relationship  Names, 
as  has  just  been  clearly  and  positively  shown! 

PERSONAL  NAMES 

Now  as  every  father  among  the  fathers  of 
men  possesses  a  personal  name  by  which  he  is 
known;  and  as  every  son  among  the  sons  of 
men  has  a  personal  name  by  which  he  is  known; 
and  as  the  spirit  of  every  man  must,  logically, 
be  known  by  the  personal  name  of  the  man 
whose  spirit  it  is — for  otherwise  there  would 
be  no  personal  identitj^  so  far  as  the  personal 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  45 

name  establishes  that  identity,  among  the 
Hving  or  the  dead — so,  in  hke  manner,  "the 
Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit" — 
those  "Three  Persons  of  One  Divine  Essence 
(or  "Name")  in  the  Godhead" — Each  possesses 
a  Personal  Name  by  which  He  should  be  iden- 
tified or  known! 

And  as  the  Scriptures  clearly  teach  that 
those  "Three  Persons  of  One  Divine  Essence 
(or  "Name")"  are  "in  the  Godhead,"  their 
Three  Personal  Names,  when  revealed^  inter- 
preted AND  UNITED,  must  Scripturally  and 
logically  form  the  One  Personal  Triune  Name 
of  the  Triune  God! 

And  when  so  made  known,  that  "Name" 
will  unerringly  prove  to  be  "the  Name  of 
the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit" — "the  Name"  into  which  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  commanded  His  apostles  and 
disciples  to  baptize  all  who  should  "believe  in 
Him";  or  who,  in  other  words,  should  "believe 
in  His  Name"! 


46  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


LET  IT  NOW  BE  REMEMBERED 

Let  it  now  be  remembered — as  has  already, 
in  part,  been  noted — that  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  made  the  following  statements  and 
promises  to  His  apostles  and  disciples: 

First:  (John  14:16-20)  "I  will  pray  the 
Father,  and  He  shall  give  you  another  Com- 
forter, that  He  may  be  with  you  forever,  even 
the  Sj)irit  of  Truth;  Whom  the  world  cannot 
receive;  for  it  beholdeth  Him  not,  neither 
knoweth  Him:  but  ye  know  Him,  for  He 
abideth  with  you,  and  shall  be  in  you.  I  will 
not  leave  you  desolate:  I  will  come  to  you. 
Yet  a  little  while  and  the  world  beholdeth  Me 
no  more;  but  ye  behold  Me:  because  I  live,  ye 
shall  live  also.  In  that  day  ye  shall  know  that 
I  am  in  My  Father,  and  ye  in  Me,  and  I  in  you." 

These  words  undoubtedly  refer  to  "the  gift 
of  the   Holy   Spirit":   "the   Spirit  of   Truth": 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  47 

Who,  at  the  time  these  words  were  spoken, 
dwelt  with  the  apostles  and  disciples  in  the 
Personality  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ;  and  Who 
was  "poured  forth"  upon,  and  received  by, 
those  very  apostles  and  disciples  upon  the  day 
of  Pentecost.  (See  Luke  24:49;  Acts  1:4-8; 
2:1-4.) 

Second:  (John  14:25,  26)  "These  things  have 
I  spoken  unto  you,  while  yet  abiding 
with  you.  But  the  Comforter,  the  Holy  Spirit, 
Whom  the  Father  will  send  in  My  Name,  He 
shall  teach  you  all  things,  and  bring  all  things 
to  your  remembrance,  whatsoever  I  have  said 
unto  you." 

In  these  words  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  plainly 
declares  that  the  Holy  Spirit,  when  He  comes 
unto  the  apostles  and  disciples,  will  not  only 
"bring  all  things  to"  their  "remembrance,  what- 
soever" He  had  "said  unto"  them;  but  that  He 
would  also  "teach"  them — or  interpret  to  them 
fully — "all  things  whatsoever"  He  "had  said 
unto"  them. 

Third:  (John  15:26)  "But  when  the  Com- 
forter  is   come.   Whom   I   will   send   unto   you 


48  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

from  the  Father,  even  the  Spirit  of  Truth, 
Who  proceedeth  from  the  Father,  He  shall 
testify  of  IMe." 

In  these  words  we  learn  that  "the  Spirit  of 
Truth,  Who  proceedeth  (or  is  "breathed  forth" 
as  the  word  indicates)  from  the  Father,"  was 
to  be  sent  unto  the  apostles  and  disciples  by  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

This  promise  was  fulfilled  by  the  Father  in 
and  through  the  Son  upon  the  day  of  Pente- 
cost; as  may  be  noted  in  Acts  2:32,  33:  "This 
Jesus  did  God  raise  up,  whereof  we  all  are 
witnesses.  Being  therefore  by  the  right  hand 
of  God  exalted,  and  having  received  of  the 
Father  the  promise  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  He  hath 
poured  forth  this,  which  ye  now  see  and  hear." 

Is  not  this  pouring  forth  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
from  the  Father  in  and  through  the  Son,  at 
least  prophetically,  interpreted  in  the  act  and 
words  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  recorded  in 
John  20:21-23? 

"Then  said  Jesus  to  them  again,  Peace 
be  unto  you:  as  My  Father  hath  sent 
Me,  even  so  send  I  you.     And  when  He 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  49 

had  said  this,  He  breathed  on  them,  and 
saith  unto  them,  Receive  (hterally  "take") 
ye  the  Holy  Spirit:  whose  soever  sins 
ye  remit,  they  are  remitted  unto  them: 
and  whose  soever  sins  ye  retain,  they 
are  retained." 

In  these  words  we  learn  that  the  Holy  Spirit 
(Who  is  also  "the  Spirit  of  Truth")  "Who 
proceedeth  (or  is  "breathed  forth")  from  the 
Father" — and  Whom  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
declared:  "I  will  send  unto  you  from  the 
Father" — was,  at  least  prophetically,  "breathed 
forth"  from  the  Personality,  and  through  the 
lips,  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Fourth:  (John  16:7,  12-15,  23-26)  "Never- 
theless I  tell  you  the  truth:  It  is  expedient  for 
you  that  I  go  away:  for  if  I  go  not  away,  the 
Comforter  will  not  come  unto  you;  but  if  I  go, 
I  will  send  Him  unto  you." 

"I  have  yet  many  things  to  say  unto  you, 
but  ye  cannot  bear  them  now.  Howbeit  when 
He,  the  Spirit  of  Truth,  is  come.  He  shall  guide 
you  into  all  the  Truth:  for  He  shall  not  speak 


50  WHAT    IS    '  THE    NAME  ' 

of  Himself:  but  what  things  soever  He  shall 
hear,  these  shall  He  speak;  and  He  shall 
declare  unto  you  the  things  that  are  to  come 
(or,  the  things  that  are  to  be  revealed?). 

"He  shall  glorify  Me:  for  He  shall  take  of 
JNIine,  and  shall  declare  it  unto  you.  All 
things  that  the  Father  hath  are  Mine:  there- 
fore said  I,  that  He  taketh  of  Mine,  and  shall 
declare  it  unto  you." 


"And  in  that  day  ye  shall  ask  INIe  nothing 
(or  "no  question"). 

"Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you,  if  ye  shall 
ask  anything  of  the  Father  in  My  Name,  He 
will  give  it  you. 

"Hitherto  have  ye  asked  nothing  (of  the 
Father?)  in  My  Name:  ask,  and  ye  shall 
receive,  that  your  joy  may  be  full. 

"These  things  have  I  spoken  unto  you  in  para- 
bles; but  the  hour  cometh  when  I  shall  no 
more  speak  unto  you  in  parables,  but  shall  tell 
you  plainly  of  the  Father. 

"In  that  day  ye  shall  ask    (the  Father?)    in 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  51 

My   Name,   and   I    say   not   unto   you,   that   I 
will  pray  the  Father  for  you." 

In  the  words  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  just 
quoted.  He  declares  that  He  must  leave  His 
apostles  and  disciples  before  the  Holy  Spirit 
— the  Spirit  of  Truth — will  come  unto  them. 
He  states  that  after  His  departure  He  will  send 
the  Spirit  of  Truth  unto  them. 

He  declares  that  they  are  not,  then,  able  to 
bear  (because  they  could  not  understand?) 
many  things  that  He  would  say  unto  them:  but 
that  "the  Spirit  of  Truth"  would  tell  them 
those  things,  by  "guiding"  them  "into  all  the 
Truth"  (He  having  previously  declared  Him- 
self to  be  "the  Truth"  in  John  14:6). 

In  that  work  of  "guiding"  them  "into  all  the 
Truth,"  "the  Spirit  of  Truth"  was  to  glorify 
Him:  and  that  glorifying  was  to  be  effected  by 
taking  His  "things"  (the  things  that  concern 
and  constitute  His  Personality?),  which  are 
also  "the  things"  of  the  Father  (See  John 
10:25-38),  and  declaring  them  unto  His 
apostles  and  disciples. 

In    that    day    when    these    things    shall    be 


52  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

accomplished,  they  shall  not  question  Him 
(See  Acts  1:6,  7:  noting  that  they  did  question 
Him  after  His  resurrection,  and  up  to  the  time 
of  His  ascension)  ;  but  they  shall  ask  (or, 
pray  to)  the  Father  in  His  Name — a  thing 
they  had  not  done  up  to  the  time  this  statement 
was  made. 

And  then  He  declares  that  all  of  these  things 
have  been  spoken  unto  them  in  parables — in 
sajnngs  whose  meanings  they  could  not  then 
fully  understand,  because  they  were  not  yet 
gifted  with  that  Divine  spiritual  discernment 
which  was  to  be  theirs  when  "the  Spirit  of 
Truth"  should  come  unto  them;  and,  then, 
through  that  Spirit,  He  would  "tell  them 
plainly  of  the  Father." 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  53 


IT    IS    PERFECTLY   CLEAR 

"It  is  expedient  for  you  that  I  go  away: 

for  if  I  go  not  away, 

the  Comforter  will  not  come  unto  you: 

but  if  I  go, 

I  will  send  Him  unto  you." 

John  16:7. 

It  is  perfectly  clear,  from  the  preceding 
statements  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  that  all 
of  His  parables,  or  parabolic  sayings,  were  to 
be  made  perfectly  plain  to  His  apostles  and 
disciples,  by  Him,  after  His  ascension,  through 
the  Holy  Spirit,  when  He  should  come  unto 
them. 

THE    CROWNING    PROOF 

Was  that  promise  fulfilled  to  those  apostles 
and  disciples  to  whom  it  was  originally  made? 
If  it  was  fulfilled,  what  was  "the  Crowning 
Proof"  of  its  fulfillment?  Does  the  Church  of 
Christ  possess  that  "Crowning  Proof"  to-day, 
namely,  the  solution  of  "the  Mystery  of  God," 


54  WHAT    IS    '  THE    NAME  ' 

which  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  promised  His 
apostles  and  disciples  would  be  made  plain,  or 
clear,  to  them  by  Him  through  the  Holy  Spirit 
when  He  should  come  unto  them? 

"THE  PROMISE  OF  THE  FATHER" 

"The  promise  of  the  Father,"  given  through 
the  jDrophets,  and  repeated  by  the  Father  in 
and  through  the  Son  (Heb.  1:1,  2.  R.  V.),  of 
"the  gift  of  the  Holy  Spirit,"  was  fulfilled  by 
the  Father  in  and  through  the  Son  upon  the 
day  of  Pentecost. 

On  that  day  He,  "the  Spirit  of  Truth,"  did 
come,  and  then  and  there,  in  the  City  of 
Jerusalem,  "guided"  the  apostles  and  disciples 
"into  all  the  Truth,"  which  they  before  that  day 
had  not  fully  understood: — thereby  making 
clear  "the  Mystery  of  God,"  which  before  that 
day  had  been  hidden  in  the  words:  "the  Name 
of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit,"  even  as  that  same  "Mystery"  has  been 
hidden  in  those  same  words  ever  since  the 
Apostolic  Age  until  now! 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  55 


A    DIVINE     INTELLECTUAL     ILLU- 
MINATION 

"But  the  Comforter,  the  Holy  Spirit, 

Whom  the  Father  will  send 

in  My  Name, 

He  shall  teach  you  all  things, 

and  bring  all  things  to  your  remembrance, 

whatsoever  I  have  said  unto  you." 

John   14:26. 

When,  on  the  day  of  Pentecost,  the  apostles 
and  disciples  were  "anointed"  with  the  Holy 
Spirit  (which  "anointing"  was  also  "the  gift  of 
the  Holy  Spirit"),  they  received  therewith  a 
most  marvellous  intellectual  illumination. 

John,  "the  disciple  whom  Jesus  loved,"  in 
writing  to  certain  ones  who  had  been  so 
"anointed,"  said,  as  recorded  in  I.  John 
2:20,  27;  "But  ye  have  an  anointing  (Greek 
"Chrisma")  from  the  Holy  One  (the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ:  see  John  6:69,  R.  V.,  and  Acts 
3:14),  and  ye  know  all  things." 


56  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

("All  things  that  the  Father  hath  are 
JNIine:  therefore  said  I,  that  He  shall  take 
of  Mine,  and  shall  declare  it  unto  you." 
John  16:15. 

"But  as  it  is  written,  Eye  hath  not  seen, 
nor  ear  heard,  neither  have  entered  into 
the  heart  of  man,  the  things  which  God 
hath  prepared  for  them  that  love  Him. 

"But   God  hath  revealed   them   unto   us 
by  the  Spirit:  for  the  Spirit  searcheth  all 
things,  yea,  the  deep  things  of  God." 
I.  Cor.  2:9,  10.) 

"But  the  anointing  which  ye  have  received 
abideth  with  you,  and  ye  need  not  that  any 
man  teach  you:  but  as  the  same  anointing 
teacheth  you  of  all  things,  and  is  Truth  ("the 
Spirit  of  Truth":  see  John  16:13)  and  is  no 
lie,  and  even  as  it  hath  taught  you,  so  abide  ye 
in  Him." 

"And  the  disciples 

were  called   Christians    (Anointed   Ones?) 

first  at  Antioch." 

Acts  11:26. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  57 


ON  PHILIPPIANS  2:9-11 

"In  the  Name  of  Jesus  every  knee  should 
bow;  i.e.,  worship  and  adoration  should  be  made 
by  all  intellectual  beings  (or  beings  endowed 
with  capable  faculties)  TO  Jesus  Christ  (Isaiah 

45:23) But,    as    if    the    apostle 

had  not  sufficiently  expressed  the  Divine  glory 
of  His  Master,  he  adds:  'And  that  every 
tongue  should  confess  that  Jesus  Christ  is 
Lord  IN  the  glory  of  God  the  Father.' 

"Thus  Novatianus  renders  the  words,  and 
draws  from  them  an  unanswerable  argument  of 
our  Saviour's  divinity.  De.  Trin.  C.  XXII. 
Hilary,  in  his  exposition  of  the  138th  Psalm, 
uses  the  same  reading. 

"The  (Greek)  preposition  eis  is  frequentlj^ 
used  for  en  (and  en  for  eis)  in  the  Scriptures. 
See  Acts  19:22;  23:11,  &c."— "Horae  Soli- 
tariae." 


58  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


THE 

TEACHING   OF    THE    HOLY    SPIRIT 

CONCERNING  "THE  NAME  of 

THE  FATHER,  and  of  THE  SON, 

and  of  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT.  " 


"God  also  hath  highly  exalted  Him, 

and  given  Him  THE  NAME 

which  is  above  every  name; 

that  in  (or  "unto"?)  THE  NAME  of  Jesus 

every  knee  should  bow   .    .    .    ; 

and  that  every  tongue  should  confess 

that  JESUS  CHRIST  IS  LORD— JEHOVAH— 

IN  the  glory  of  God  the  Father." 

Philippians    2:9-11 

(the    11th   verse   being   rendered   according   to 
John  Wesley  in  his  "Explanatory  Notes  upon 
The  New  Testament,"  page  509.) 
(See,  also,  Isaiah  45:23  and  Romans  14:11.) 


If  it  can  be  certainly  determined — "accord- 
ing to  the  Scrijotures,"  and  not  according  to  any 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  59 

sub- Apostolic  tradition  that  is  contrary  thereto 
— into  what  "Name"  baptism  was  administered 
on  the  day  of  Pentecost,  that  "Name,"  beyond 
all  question,  will  prove  to  be  "THE  NAME 
of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit" ! 


PETER'S  PENTECOSTAL  PROCLAMATION 

In  that  memorable  address  of  Peter,  given 
under  the  anointing  of  the  Holy  Spirit — Who 
is  "the  Spirit  of  Truth" — on  the  day  of  Pente- 
cost, he  said,  among  many  other  things:  "Let 
all  the  house  of  Israel  know  assuredly,  that 
God  hath  made  that  same  Jesus,  whom  ye 
have  crucified,  both  Lord  and  Christ  (these  two 
names,  in  the  Greek  of  the  Septuagint,  stand  for 
Jehovah  and  Messiah)  . 

"Now  when  they  heard  this  they  were 
pricked  in  their  heart,  and  said  unto  Peter  and 
to  the  rest  of  the  apostles.  Men  and  brethren, 
what  shall  we  do?" 

( Now  let  it  be  kept  distinctly  in  mind  that  the 


GO  WHAT   IS   "the   name" 

reply  of  Peter  to  this  question  was  immediately 
inspired  of  the  Holy  Spirit: 

AND  THIS  IS  WHAT  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT, 
THROUGH  PETER,  REPLIED): 

"Then  Peter  said  unto  them,  Repent,  and  be 
baptized  every  one  of  you  in  the  Name  of 
[the  Lord]  Jesus  Christ  unto  the  remission  of 
your  sins,  and  ye  shall  receive  the  gift  of  the 
Holy  Spirit.  For  the  promise  is  unto  you,  and 
to  your  children,  and  to  all  that  are  afar  off, 
even  as  many  as  the  Lord  our  God  shall  call." 
Acts  2:36-39. 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  61 


AN  OBVIOUS  OMISSION 

Let  it  be  noted,  at  this  point,  that  the  omission 
from  the  text  of  the  words  "the  Lord,  which 
we  have  supplied  in  brackets,  before  the  words 
"Jesus  Christ,"  not  only  deprives  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  of  His  first  "Name"— "the  Name" 
of  "the  Lord,"  which  God  the  Father  had  given 
Him  when  He  "made"  Him  "Lord"  (See  Luke 
2:11),  as  stated  in  the  preceding  36th  verse — 
but  also,  consequently,  obscures  the  teaching! 
That  those  very  words  "the  Lord"  belong  in 
that  very  place  in  the  complete  Apostolic 
"baptismal  formula"  or  "Name,"  is  clearly  and 
positively  shown  in  Acts  8:16  and  19:5,  where, 
in  both  verses,  the  words  "the  Name  of  the  Lord 
Jesus"  are  given  in  the  "baptismal  formula"  or 
"Name"  used,  but  the  word  "Christ"  is  omitted! 

To  most  clearly  bring  out  and  make  plain 
this  fact,  the  writer  presents  the  comparative 
arrangement  of  the  four  Scripture  references 
set  forth  below.     (R.  V.) 

(In  noting  this  remarkable  comparison,  let 


62  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

the  reader  recall  the  fact,  previously  noted  in 
this  book,  that  these  four  references  contain  the 
only  record  in  the  New  Testament  of  the  "bap- 
tismal formula"  or  "Name"  used  in  actual 
baptisms  therein  recorded!) 

A      COMPARISON      OF      SCRIPTURE 
REFERENCES 

Acts  2:38:  "Then  Peter 
said  unto  them^  Repent, 
and  be  baptized  every 
one  of  you 

in  [to]    the     Name     of  [the     Lord]  Jesus 

Christ." 

Acts  8:16:  "Only  they 
were  baptized 

into     the     Name     of     the     Lord     Jesus 

[Christ]." 

Acts  10:48:  "And  he 
commanded  them  to  be 
baptized 

in  [to]    the     Name     of  [the     Lord]  Jesus 

Christ." 

Acts  19:5:  "When  they 
heard  this  they  were 
baptized 

into     the     Name     of     the     Lord     Jesus 
[Christ]." 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  63 


THE  FULL  TRIUNE  "NAME"  REVEALED 

The  reader  will  note  the  remarkable  fact  that 
the  four  Scripture  references  set  forth  above 
include  two  pairs  of  identical,  but  obviously 
incomplete,  "baptismal  formulas." 

Now  by  supplying,  or  combining,  the  missing 
word  or  words  in  either  pair  of  "formulas"  with 
the  word  or  words  supplied  by  the  other  pair 
of  "formulas,"  we  discover  that  the  complete 
Apostolic  "baptismal  formula"  declared  bap- 
tism "into  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ." 

"For  as  many  of  you  as  were 
baptized     into     Christ 
did  put  on  Christ." 
Galatians  3:27. 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME 


THE     TEACHING    OF    THE     SPIRIT 
OF     GOD 

I.  Corinthians  2:7-13. 

"But  we  speak  the  wisdom  of  God  in  a 
mystery,  even  the  hidden  wisdom  which 
God  foreordained  before  the  ages  unto  our 
glor}';  which  none  of  the  rulers  of  this  age 
knew:  for  had  they  known,  they  would  not 
have  crucified  the  Lord  of  the  glory — ("the  Lord 
— Jehovah — of  the  Shechinah"). 

"But  as  it  is  written,  Eye  hath  not  seen,  nor 
ear  heard,  neither  have  entered  into  the  heart 
of  man,  the  things  which  God  hath  prepared 
for  them  that  love  Him. 

"But  God  hath  revealed  them  unto  us  (the 
apostles  and  others  anointed  with  the  Holy 
Spirit)  by  the  Spirit;  for  the  Spirit  searcheth 
all  things,  yea,  the  deep  things  of  God. 

"For    what    man    knoweth    the    things    of    a 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  65 

man,  save  the  spirit  of  man  which  is  in  him? 
Even  so  the  things  of  God  knoweth  no  man, 
but  the  Spirit  of  God. 

"Now  we  have  received,  not  the  spirit  of  the 
world,  but  the  Spirit  of  God;  that  we  might 
know  the  things,  that  are  freely  given  us,  of 
God. 

"Which  things  also  we  speak  (or  write)  not 
in  words  which  man's  wisdom  teacheth,  but 
which  the  Holy  Spirit  teacheth,  combining 
spiritual  things  with  spiritual." 

In  Lange's  Commentary  on  I.  Corinthians 
2:7-13;  page  59,  we  read:  "The  deep  things 
of  God,"  meaning  "the  inmost  recesses  of  God, 
the  otherwise  unexplorable  depths  where  His 
thoughts  and  volitions  have  free  play,  the  hidden 
mystery  of  His  Personality,  which  corresponds 
to  those  mysteries  of  His  Kingdom  and  of  all 
His  works  and  ways  which  the  Spirit  reveals." 

Let  the  reader  note  the  remarkable  similarity 
existing  between  the  statements  of  Paul  as  to 
the  source  and  methods  of  securing  knowledge 
of  "the  deep  things  of  God,"  "the  hidden 
mj'stery  of  His  Personality,"  and  the  obvious 


66  WHAT    IS      THE    NAME 

source,  method  and  fact  of  the  disclosure  of 
"the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and 
of  the  Holy  Spirit"  as  "the  Name  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,"  as  set  forth  in  tliis  book! 

"No  one  can  say 

Jesus  is  Lord   (Jehovah) 

but  in  the  Holy  Spirit." 

I.  Corinthians  12:3. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  67 


"But  the  remission  of  sins  through  (or 
''in)  His  Name,  that  is,  through  (or  ''in^') 
His  Person,  when  it  is  acknowledged  and 
confessed,  unmistakably  presupposes  that 
He  is  personally  the  medium  through  (or 
"in")  whom  Divine  grace  and  forgiveness 
ARE  obtained:  or,  in  other  words.  He  is  the 
Author  of  the  Reconciliation."  Lange's 
Commentary,  Acts  10:43,  page  205. 


68  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


NOW   LET    TPIESE    TWO    FACTS    BE 
DISTINCTLY  NOTED 

First:  That  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  ("that 
same  Jesus  that  God  hath  made  both  Lord  and 
Chi'ist")  had  commanded  His  apostles  and 
disciples  to  baptize  all  who  should  believe  in 
Him  "into  the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit." 

Second:  That  on  the  day  of  Pentecost 
(when  they  were  given  of  the  Holy  Spirit  to 
know  "all  things  whatsoever"  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  had  "said  unto"  them),  and  always 
afterward,  those  apostles  and  disciples  baptized 
all  who  believed  in  Him  into  His  Name! 

Thus  it  will  be  clearly  and  unmistakably  seen 
that,  with  His  Lord's  command  to  baptize  all 
who  should  believe  in  Him  (or  who  should 
"believe  in  His  Name")  "into  the  Name  of 
the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit"  still  fresh  in  his  mind,  Peter,   and  all 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  69 

of  his  fellow-apostles  and  disciples,  in  all  cases 
recorded  in  the  New  Testament — as  previously 
noted  and  explained — baptized  all  who  believed 
in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  into  the  Name  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ:  and  by  that  act  plainly 
showed  and  declared  that  "the  Name  of  the 
Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit" 
was,  as  it  is,  and  ever  shall  be,  "the  Name  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ"! 


70  WHAT   IS   "the   NAMF.' 


THE   TRUE   BAPTISMAL   "NAME" 

IS 

THE  SAVING  "NAME  OF  THE  LORD 

JESUS   CHRIST" 

For  many  centuries  doubtless  multitudes  of 
thoughtful  Christians  have  wondered  why  they 
have  believed,  unto  salvation,  in  One  "Name," 
and  have  been  baptized,  as  a  sign  of  that  salva- 
tion, into  another  "Name."  By  this  interpreta- 
tion of  the  Holy  Spirit  it  is  made  perfectly 
clear  that  the  saving  "Name"  and  the  true 
baptismal  "Name"  are  One  and  the  Same: — 
even  as  the  saving  "Name"  and  the  saving 
"Personality"  are  One  and  the   Same! 

For — as  has  been  shown — on  the  day  of 
Pentecost  the  Holy  Spirit  showed  and 
declared  through  Peter,  that  "the — baptismal 
— Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and 
of   the   Holy    Spirit"   was,   as   it   is,   and   ever 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  71 

shall    be,    "the — saving — Name    of    the    Lord 
Jesus  Christ"! 

On  that  day  salvation  was  proclaimed,  and 
baptism  was  administered  as  a  sign  of  that 
salvation,  "in  (or  "into")  the  Najme  of  [the 
Lord]  Jesus  Christ"! 

Thus  is  it  clearly  and  jiositively  shown  by 
the  teaching  of  the  Holy  Spirit  through  Peter 
(Acts  2:38),  in  interpretation  of  the  command 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  (Matthew  28:19), 
that  the  sacrament  of  baptism  is  indeed  "an 
outward  and  visible  sign  of  an  inward  and 
spiritual  grace";  and  that  that  "inward  and 
spiritual  grace"  is  "the  baptism  in  (or  "into") 
the  Holy  Spirit,"  which  effects  "a  death  unto 
sin,  and  a  new  birth  unto  righteousness";  or, 
in  another  word,  salvation,  through  faith,  "in 
(or  "into")  the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of 
the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit";  wliich 
"Name"  is  "the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ"! 


72  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


THE  ONLY 
SAVING  "NAME  " 

Furthermore,  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  is  "the  Only  Name"  in  which  salvation 
may  be  had,  and  into  which  baptism  may  be 
Scripturally  and  appropriately  administered  as 
a  sign  of  that  salvation.  This  fact  is  clearly 
set  forth  in  Acts  4:1-12,  as  follows:  "And 
as  they  (Peter  and  John)  spake  unto  the  people, 
the  priests,  and  the  captain  of  the  temple,  and 
the  Sadducees  came  upon  them:  being  sore 
troubled  because  they  taught  the  people,  and 
preached  in  Jesus  the  resurrection  from  the 
dead.  And  they  laid  hands  on  them,  and  put 
them  in  prison  unto  the  next  day:  for  it  was 
eventide.  But  many  of  them  that  heard  the 
Word  believed:  and  the  nmnber  of  men  became 
about  five  thousand.  And  it  came  to  pass  on 
the    morrow,     that    their    rulers,     and     elders 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  73 

and  scribes,  and  Annas  the  high  priest,  and 
Caiaphas,  and  John,  and  Alexander,  and  as 
many  as  were  of  the  kindred  of  the  high  priest, 
were  gathered  together  in  Jerusalem. 

"And  when  they  had  set  them  in  the  midst, 
they  asked,  In  what  power,  or  in  what  name, 
have  ye  done  this?  Then  Peter,  filled  with  the 
Holy  Spirit,  said  unto  them:  Ye  rulers  of  the 
people,  and  elders,  if  we  this  day  be  examined 
as  to  the  good  deed  done  to  the  impotent  man, 
IN  what  means  he  is  made  whole;  be  it  known 
unto  you  all,  and  to  all  the  people  of  Israel, 
that  IN  the  Name  of  [the  Lord]  Jesus  Christ 
of  Nazareth,  whom  ye  crucified,  whom  God 
raised  from  the  dead,  even  in  Him  doth  this 
man  stand  here  before  you  whole.  "This  is 
THE  STONE  which  was  set  at  naught  by  you 
the  builders,  which  became  the  head  of  the 
corner. 

"Neither  is  there  salvation  (in  fact,  or 
sj-mbolically  in  the  sacrament  of  baptism)  in 
any  other;  for  there  is  none  other  Name  under 
heaven  given  among  men  wherein  ye  must  be 
saved." 


74  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


AN  UNESCAPABLE  DEDUCTION 

In  view  of  the  Holy  Spirit's  teaching, 
through  Peter,  as  set  forth  above,  "the  Name 
of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit"  is,  beyond  all  question,  "the  Name  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ"! 

And  it  is  well  that  such  is  the  fact,  for, 
otherwise,  there  never  would  have  been  a 
Divinely  valid  baptism — so  far  as  "the  Name" 
used  as  a  "baptismal  formula"  is  concerned — 
in  the  case  of  any  person  who  has  ever  been 
baptized  in  the  words:  "in  (or  "into")  the 
Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of 
the  Holy  Spirit"! 

The  only  thing  that  can,  or  does.  Divinely 
validate  baptism  administered  in  those  words  is 
the  fact  that  such  baptism  is  administered 
through  a  parabolic  formula  into  the  Name  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ! 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  75 

PRE-PENTECOSTAL  BAPTISM 

But  baptism  in  those  words — "in  (or  "into") 
the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and 
of  the  Holy  Spirit" — was  never  administered 
by  the  apostles  in,  or  by  the  Church  of,  the 
Apostolic  Age,  so  far  as  the  New  Testament 
bears  record,  as  already  shown;  and  for  the 
now  obvious  reason  that  baptism  in  those  words 
is  administered  according  to  a  pre-Pentecostal 
parabolic  "baptismal  formula";  a  pre-Pente- 
costal literal  interpretation  of  that  "formula"; 
and,  consequently,  according  to  a  pre-Pente- 
costal interpretation  of  "the  Name"  and 
"Personality"  of  the  Triune  God;  and  at  the 
expense  of  the  true  Pentecostal  interpretation 
of  "the  Name"  and  "Personality"  of  the  Triune 
God;  Who,  according  to  the  latter  interpreta- 
tion, is  inclusive  of,  and  fully  incarnate  in,  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.  (See  Acts  2:36-39;  II. 
Corinthians  5:19  and  Colossians  2:9.)  In  other 
words,  baptism  administered  in  the  words:  "in 
(or  "into")  the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit,"  is  administered  at 


76  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

the  cost  of  that  open  and  complete  baptismal 
confession  of  the  Supreme  Deity  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  that  was  invariably  accorded  Him 
in  all  baptisms  of  the  Apostolic  Age;  and  that 
is,  and  will  be,  accorded  Him  when  the  Christian 
believer  is  baptized  openly  into  His  Name! 

A  LOGICAL  CONCLUSION 

Thus  has  it  been  shown,  "according  to  the 
Scriptures,"  that  baptism  administered  in  the 
words:  "in  (or  "into"  )the  Name  of  the  Father, 
and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit"  is  clearly 
and  undoubtedly  pre-Pentecostal !  In  view  of 
the  premises,  any  other  conclusion  is  both 
Scripturally  and  logically  impossible! 

This  conclusion  is  further  emphasized  and 
confirmed  by  the  fact  that  the  words  "the  Name 
of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Spirit"  have  been  clearly  shown  to  be  parabolic 
— possessing  both  an  outer,  or  apparent,  and  an 
inner,  or  hidden,  meaning;  this  is  proven  by  the 
fact  that  they  refer,  first,  to  an  unstated 
"Name";   and,  second,  to  "Three  Divine  Per- 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  77 

sons" — "the  Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the 
Holy  Spirit"— to  Whom  that  "Name"  belongs, 
and  Whom  it  includes. 

yiie  fact  of  an  inner,  or  liidden,  meaning 
— common  to  all  of  the  parables,  or  parabolic 
teachings,  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ — clearly 
implies  a  further,  and  consequently  future, 
revelation  of  the  unstated  "Name." 

That  revelation,  as  has  been  herein  shown, 
was  given  by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  through  the 
Holy  Spirit,  on  the  day  of  Pentecost;  reveal- 
ing the  fact  that  "the  Name  of  the  Father,  and 
of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit"  is  "the 
Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ."  The  fact 
that  this  great  truth,  as  herein  disclosed,  has 
not  been  recognized  by,  or  known  to,  the 
Christian  Church  since  the  Apostolic  Age  is 
proof  positive  that  the  knowledge  thereof  was 
lost  to  the  Church  and  to  the  world  at,  or 
about,  the  close  of  the  Apostohc  Age! 

It  also  now  appears  that  the  Jews  of  the 
Apostolic  Age  understood  that  it  was  "God 
("the  Father")  in  Christ"  ("the  Son")  (II. 
Corinthians  5:19)   Who  was  preached  to  them, 


78  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

"in  the  Holy  Sj^irit  sent  down  from  heaven" 
(I.  Peter  1:12);  and,  being  so  interpreted, 
monotheists  as  they  were,  they  could  consist- 
ently, and  did,  accept  Him  "in  Whom  dwelleth 
all  the  fulness  (or  "completeness")  of  the  God- 
head (or  "Divine  Personality")  bodily,"  as 
their  Christ,  their  Saviour,  and  their  Lord:  and 
in  every  actual  case  recorded,  where  "the  bap- 
tismal Name"  or  "formula"  used  is  given,  were 
baptized  into  His  Name! 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  79 


"This  I  have  often  said  and  now  say  it 
again,  that  when  I  am  dead  it  may  be  thought 
of  and  men  may  learn  to  avoid  all  teachers  as 
sent  and  driven  of  the  devil  who  set  up  to  talk 
and  preach  about  God  simple  and  sundered 
from  Jesus  Christ. 

"If  thou  wouldst  go  straight  to  God  and 
surely  apprehend  Him,  so  as  to  find  in  Him 
mercy  and  strength,  never  let  thyself  be 
persuaded  to  seek  Him  elsewhere  than  in  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

"In  Christ  begin  thy  art  and  study,  in  Him 
let  it  abide  firm,  and  wherever  else  thy  own 
reason  and  thinking  or  any  other  man's  would 
lead  thee,  shut  thine  eyes  and  say,  I  must  not, 
I  will  not,  know  any  other  God  than  in  my 
Lord  Jesus  Christ." — Martin  Luther. 


80  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

THE  SOLUTION  OF 
"THE  MYSTERY  OF  GOD" 

Ever  since  the  Apostolic  Age  Christian  the- 
ologians have  unsuccessfully  endeavored  to  fully 
explain  how  "the  Three  Divine  Persons" — "the 
Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit" — "in 
the  Godhead"  can  be  "Named"  by,  possess,  and 
be  included  in  One  "Name":  which  is  "the  Name 
of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 

Spirit." 

HERE    IS 

"THE    INTERPRETATION    THEREOF" 

"That  they  may  know 
THE  MYSTERY  OF  GOD  IN  CHRIST, 
IN    WHOM 

are  all  the  treasures 

of  wisdom  and  knowledge  hidden." 

"For    IN    HIM 

dwellcth  ALL  the  fulness 

of  THE   GODHEAD   bodily." 

Colossians  2 :  2,  9 

(ancient  reading). 


There    are    "Three    Divine    Persons" — "the 
Father,  and  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit" — in 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  81 

the  Godliead:  and  They  are  "Named"  by,  pos- 
sess, and  are  included  in  One  "Name":  First:  by 
being  of  "One  Divine  Essence"  (or  "Name")  ; 
and,  Second:  by  being  of,  and  incarnate  in.  One 
Divine-Human  Person  (Who  is  "the  Son"  of 
"the  Three  Divine  Persons"),  and  Whose 
"Name"  (or  "Divine  Essence"),  of  the  One 
Divine-Human  Triune  Personality,  is  One! 

And  as  that  "Name"  of  "the  Three  Divine 
Persons  of  One  Divine  Essence  (or  "Name")" 
is  Three  "Names"  in  One  "Name,"  the 
Three  "Names"  in  One  "Name"  being  clearly 
and  unmistakably  the  combined  "Names"  of 
"the  Three  Divine  Persons  of  One  Divine 
Essence  (or  "Name")"  of  and  incarnate  in 
that  One  Divine-Human  Triune  Personality, 
the  solution  of  "the  Mystery  of  God" — of 
how  Three  Divine  Persons,  "the  Father,  and 
the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit,"  of  One  Divine 
Essence  (or  "Name"),  can  be  of,  and  in,  and 
form  One  Divine  Triune  Personality  with  One 
Triune  "Name" — is  hereby  and  herein  restored 
to  the  knowledge  of  men:  that,  at  last,  "all  men 
may    know    the    Lord    from    the    least    to    the 


82  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

greatest  of  them";  and  that  such  knowledge 
may  prove  indeed  to  be  the  saving  knowledge 
of  "God  in  Christ"  to  untold  millions  of  now 
unsaved  souls  "for  whom  Christ  died,"  and 
make  possible  a  world-wide  recognition  of 
"our  great  God  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ"  at 
His  coming  "glorious  appearing"!  Titus  2:13. 
R.V. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  83 


"And  through  the  Word  Himself  who 

HAD  been  made  VISIBLE  AND  PALPABLE,  WAS  THE 

Father  shown  forth;  although  all  did  not 
equally  believe  in  him :  but  all  saw  the 
Father  in  the  Son;  for  the  Father  is  the 

INVISIBLE  OF  the  SoN,  BUT  THE  SoN  THE  VISIBLE 

OF  THE  Father.      And  for  this  reason  all 
SPAKE  WITH  Christ  when   He  was  present 
(upon  earth),  and  they  named  Him  God." 
Irenaeus,  "Against  Heresies/^ 
in  "The  Apostolic  Fathers." 


84  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


"THOU,  O  LORD,  ART 

OUR  FATHER." 

(Isaiah  63:16.) 

"HOLY  FATHER,  keep  them  IN  THY  NAME 

which  THOU  hast  given  ME,  that  they 

may  be  ONE,  even  as  WE  «r^." 

(John  17:11.  R.  V.) 

"I  AM  come  IN  MY  FATHER'S  NAME." 

(John  5:43.) 

"Blessed  is  HE 

that  Cometh 

IN  THE  NAME  of 

THE  LORD." 

(Matthew    21:9.) 

"ONE  LORD, 

ONE  FAITH, 

ONE  BAPTISM." 

(Ephesians  4:5.) 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  85 


"His  acts  have  proven  His  Deity. 

JESUS  IS  JEHOVAH! 
and   therefore   we   sing   unto   HIM 

as  THE  LORD." 

Spurgeon's    "Treasury   of   David." 

Psalm  98:  in  Vol.  4.  Page  371. 


86  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


THE   FINAL   AND   COMPLETED   PROOF 

—"ACCORDING  TO  THE   SCRIPTURES"— 

of    THE    FOREGOING    INTERPRETATION     of 

"THE  NAME  of  THE  FATHER, 
and  of  THE   SON,  and   of  THE   HOLY   SPIRIT" 


"When  He,  the  Spirit  of  Truth,  is  come, 
He  will  guide  you  into  all  the  Truth.  .  .  . 
He  shall  glorify  Me:  for  He  shall  take 
of  JMine,  and  shall  declare  it  unto  you. 
All  things  that  the  Father  hath  are  JMine: 
therefore  said  I,  that  He  shall  take  of 
Mine,  and  shall  declare  it  unto  you." 
John  16:13-15. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  87 


"THE  NAME"  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 
THE  TRIUNE  NAME  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS 
CHRIST,  IS  "THE  NAME"  of  "THE  FATHER, 
and  of  THE  SON,  and  of  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT"; 
BECAUSE  IT  IS  "THE  NAME"  OF  THE 
DIVINE-TRIUNE  PERSONALITY  OF,  AND 
INCARNATE  IN,  HIM  WHO  IS  "THE  SON  OF 
GOD"  AND  "THE  SON  OF  MAN";  AND  THAT 
TRIUNE  "NAME"  CONSISTS  OF  THE  COM- 
BINED PERSONAL  "NAMES"  OF  "THE 
FATHER,  and  of  THE  SON,  and  of  THE 
HOLY    SPIRIT." 

"THE  NAME"  of  "THE  FATHER." 

THE  FIRST  NAME  IN  THE  TRIUNE  NAME 

OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST  IS  "THE  NAME" 

OF  "THE  LORD." 


88  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


THIS  NAME 

— in   this    connection — 

IS  THE  PERSONAL  "NAME"  OF  "THE  FATHER" 
IN  THE  TRIUNE  "NAME"  OF  THE  LORD 
JESUS  CHRIST,  EVEN  AS  "THE  DIVINE 
PERSON"  OF  "THE  FATHER"  IS  INCLUSIVE 
OF,  AND  INCARNATE  IN,  THE  DIVINE- 
HUMAN  TRIUNE  PERSONALITY  OF  THE 
LORD    JESUS    CHRIST. 

"I  AM  IN  THE  FATHER,  AND  THE  FATHER 
IN  ME." 

John   14:10. 

SCRIPTURE    PROOFS 

"THEY    SHALL    KNOW   THAT   MY   NAME    IS 
THE    LORD." 

Jeremiah  16:21. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  89 

In  Isaiah  63:16  (A.  V.)  the  prophet 
declares:  "Thou,  O  Lord,  art  our  Father, 
our  Redeemer:    Thy  Name  is  from  everlasting." 

In  these  Divinely  inspired  words  the  prophet 
declares  that  the  "Lord"  is  "our  Father":  or 
"the  Father"  of  His  people. 

There  can  be  but  one  logical  deduction 
drawn  from  this  statement:  namely,  that  as 
"the  Lord"  is  "the  Father,"  "the  Name"  of 
"the  Father"  is  "the  Name"  of  "the  Lord." 

In  John  17:11,  12  (R.  Y.)  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  prays:  "Holy  Father,  keep  them  in 
Thy  Name  which  Thou  hast  given  Me,  that 
they  may  be  one,  even  as  We  are.  While  I 
was  with  them,  I  kept  them  in  Thy  Name 
which  Thou  hast  given  JNIe ;  and  I  guarded  them, 
and  not  one  of  them  perished,  but  the  son  of 
perdition:  that  the  Scripture  might  be  ful- 
filled." 

In  these  words  of  prayer  to  "the  Father," 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  states  that  "the  Father" 
has  given  His  "Name" — which  is  obviously 
"The  Name"  of  "the  Lord"— to  His  Son,  the 
Lord  Jesiis  Christ. 


90  WHAT  IS  "the  na:me" 

In  John  5:43  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
declares:  "I  am  come  in  i\Iy  Father's  Name, 
and  ye  receive  ]Me  not:  if  another  shall  come  in 
his  own  name,  him  ye  will  receive." 

In  these  Divine  words  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  declares  that  He  comes  (literally  bear- 
ing, and  spiritually  included)  in  His  Father's 
"Name":  which,  as  has  been  shown,  is  "the 
Name"  of  "the  Lord"  ("the  Name"  of  "the 
Lord"  being,  in  a  literal  sense,  the  Personal 
designation:  and,  in  a  spiritual  sense,  "the 
Person,"  or  "Spirit,"  of  "the  Lord"). 

In  JNIatthew  21:9  it  is  stated  that  the  multi- 
tudes declared:  "Blessed  is  He  that  cometh 
in  the  Name  of  the  Lord." 

In  this  last  quotation  the  attending  multi- 
tudes welcomed  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  upon 
the  occasion  of  His  triumphal  entry  into  the 
City  of  Jerusalem. 

Let  the  reader  now  note  the  remarkably 
significant  fact  that  the  words  just  quoted  from 
Matthew  21:9 — as  they  also,  in  substance, 
appear  in  Mark  11:9;  Luke  19:38  and  John 
12:13 — are,   in   turn,   a   quotation   from   Psalm 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  91 

118:26  (A.  v.),  in  which  "the  Name"  of  "the 
Lord"  is  substituted  for  "the  Name"  of 
"Jehovah"  (as  it  is  likewise  substituted,  as  a 
rule,  throughout  the  Authorized  Version  of  the 
Old  Testament,  according  to  the  usage  of 
the  equivalent  words  in  the  Greek  of  the 
Septuagint,  which  was  "the  Scriptures"  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  His  apostles!). 

(Let  it,  also,  now  be  noted  that  He  who — 
in  the  9th  verse  of  the  21st  chapter  of  JNIatthew 
— is  declared  to  have  come  to  Jerusalem  "in 
the  Name  of  the  Lord"  had  previously — as 
recorded  in  the  3rd  verse  of  the  same  chapter 
of  IMatthew — declared  Himself  to  be  "the 
Lord"! 

Thus  is  it  shown  that  He  who  came  "in  the 
Name  of  the  Lord"  not  only  came  as  the 
representative,  and  with  the  authority,  of 
"the  Lord";  but  that  He  came  literally  bearing, 
and  spiritually  included  "in  the  Name  of  the 
Lord.") 

In  John  10:25  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
declares:  "The  works  that  I  do  in  My  Father's 
Name,  thev  bear  witness  of  Me." 


92  WHAT    IS    '  THE    NAME  ' 

That  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  again  refers  to 
"the  Name"  of  "the  Lord"  as  His  Father's 
"Name"  is  clearly  shown  in  Mark  5:18-20, 
where  it  is  stated:  "And  when  He  was  come  into 
the  ship,  he  that  had  been  possessed  with  the 
devil  prayed  that  he  might  be  with  Him.  How- 
beit  Jesus  suffered  him  not,  but  saith  unto  him, 
Go  home  to  thy  friends  and  tell  them  what 
great  things  the  Lord  (meaning  "the  Lord" 
God:  See  Luke  8:39)  hath  done  for  thee,  and 
hath  had  compassion  on  thee. 

"And  he  departed,  and  began  to  publish  in 
Decapolis  how  great  things  Jesus  had  done  for 
him:  and  all  men  did  marvel." 

In  Matthew  8:2,  3  it  is  stated:  "And,  be- 
hold, there  came  a  leper  and  worshipped  Him, 
saying.  Lord,  if  Thou  wilt.  Thou  canst  make 
me  clean.  And  Jesus  put  forth  Flis  hand, 
and  touched  him,  saying,  I  will;  be  thou  clean." 

In  this  case  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  respond- 
ing to  a  prayer  for  healing  offered  to  Him  in 
His  .Father's   "Name"— "the   Name"   of   "the 
Lord":  or  to  the   Father  in   His   "Name,"   or 
"Person" — performed  in  His  Father's  "Name" 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  93 

the  mighty  work  of  healing  a  man  of  that 
awful  disease  the  leprosy:  that  thereby  "the 
Father"  might  "be  glorified  in  (the  Person  of) 
the  Son"   (See  John  14:13). 

In  John  14:10  we  read  the  words  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  perfect  confirmation,  and 
explanation,  of  this  interpretation:  "Believest 
thou  not  that  I  am  in  the  Father,  and  the 
Father  in  Me?  The  words  that  I  speak  unto 
you  I  speak  not  of  Myself:  but  the  Father  that 
dwelleth  in  Me,  He  doeth  the  works." 

In  Luke  10:21,  22  we  read:  "In  that  hour 
Jesus  rejoiced  in  the  Spirit,  and  said,  I  thank 
Thee,  O  Father,  Lord  of  heaven  and  earth, 
that  Thou  hast  hid  these  tilings  from  the  wise 
and  prudent,  and  hast  revealed  them  unto 
babes:  even  so,  Father;  for  so  it  seemed  good 
in  Thy  sight. 

"All  things  are  delivered  to  Me  of  My  Father: 
and  no  man  knoweth  who  the  Son  is,  but  the 
Father;  and  who  the  Father  is,  but  the  Son, 
and  he  to  whom  the  Son  wills  to  reveal 
Him." 

When   it   is   clearly   shown  that   "the  Lord" 


94  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

is  "the  Father";  and  that,  consequently,  "the 
Name"  of  "the  Father"  is  "the  Name"  of  "the 
Lord":  and  when  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  in 
His  jDrayer  to  "the  Father,"  declares  that  to 
Him  "the  Father"  has  given  His  "Name": 
and  when  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  states  that  He 
came  in  His  Father's  "Name";  and  it  is, 
subsequently,  stated  that  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  came  "in  the  Name  of  the  Lord,"  it 
certainly  is  clearly  and  positively  proved,  both 
by  the  statements  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  through  the  Written  Word 
of  God,  that  "the  Name"  of  "the  Lord"  given 
to,  possessed  by,  and  included  in  the  Triune 
"Name"  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  His 
Father's  "Name." 

And,  furthermore,  when  it  is  shown,  by  His 
own  testimony,  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  did 
all  of  His  mighty  works  in  His  Father's 
"Name" — which,  in  this  connection  also,  is  shown 
to  be  "the  Name"  of  "the  Lord";  and  when 
it  is,  also,  shown  by  His  own  testimony  that 
His  mighty  works  were  not  only  done  in  his 
Father's  "Name,"  but  by  His  Father  Himself, 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  95 

— Who,  spiritually  including,  and  dwelling 
within,  His  Son,  in  and  through  His  Son  did 
His  mighty  works — it  is  clearly  and  positively 
proved  that  not  only  is  "the  Name"  of  "the 
Lord"  in  and  of  the  Triune  "JVaime"  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  "the  Name"  of  "the 
Father,"  but,  also,  that  "the  Divine  Person" 
of  "the  Father"  was,  and  is,  inclusive  of,  and 
incarnate  in,  the  Divine-Human  Triune  Person- 
ahty  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ! 

Let  it,  further,  be  noted  that  in  the  prayer 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  to  "the  Father" — 
already  quoted — He  calls  "the  Father" 
"Lord";  and,  by  so  doing,  addresses  "the 
Father"  as,  and  in  "the  Name"  of,  "the  Lord." 
JNIany  other  Scripture  proofs  are  available  to 
support  the  teaching  that  "the  Name"  of  "the 
Father"  is  "the  Name"  of  "the  Lord";  but  the 
proofs  already  submitted  appear  to  establish 
the  fact  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt. 


96  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


THEREFORE  "THE  NAME"  OF  "THE 
LORD"— in  this  connection— IS  THE  PERSONAL 
"NAME"  OF  "THE  FATHER"  IN  THE  TRIUNE 
"NAME"  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST, 
EVEN  AS  "THE  DIVINE  PERSON"  OF  "THE 
FATHER"  IS  INCLUSIVE  OF,  AND  INCAR- 
NATE IN,  THE  DIVINE-HUMAN  TRIUNE 
PERSONALITY  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST. 


:m 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  97 


"Not  as  the  painters  of  the  Trinity  child- 
ishly represented  on  the  one  side  the  Father 
as  an  old  man,  and  apart  from  Him,  on  the 
other  side,  God  the  Son. 

"The  Son  is  ever  the  visible  face  of  the 
Father — rather  could  we  see  a  man  indepen- 
dently of,  or  apart  from,  his  face,  than  we  can 
see  God  independently  of,  or  apart  from.  His 
Son,  who  is  His  face." — Zeller. 

"Thus,  dear  ministerial  brethren,  accustom 
yourselves  not  to  the  fatal  God  and  Christ — 
but  to  the  Apostolical  'God  in  Chinst.'  " 

Stier^s  "The  Words  of  the  Lord  Jesus." 

Vol.  2,  Part  1,  page  350. 


98  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


"For  unto  us  a  child  is  born,  unto  us  a  son 
is  given;  and  the  government  shall  be  upon 
His  shoulder;  and  His  Name  shall  be  called 
(or  He  shall  be)  Wondekful,  Counsellor, 
The  Mighty  God,  The  E\terlasting  Father, 
The  Prince  or  Peace/^ 

Isaiah  9:6. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  99 


"THE  NAME"  of  "THE  SON," 

THE  SECOND  NAME  IN  THE  TRIUNE  NAME 

OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST,  IS  "THE  NAME" 

OF  "JESUS." 

THIS   NAME 

— in  this   connection — 

IS  THE  PERSONAL  "NAME"  OF  "THE  SON" 
IN  THE  TRIUNE  "NAME"  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS 
CHRIST,  EVEN  AS  "THE  DIVINE-HUMAN 
PERSON"  OF  "THE  SON"  IS,  IN  HIS  DIVINITY, 
INCARNATE  IN,  AND,  IN  HIS  HUMANITY, 
THE  INCARNATION  OF,  THE  DIVINE-HUMAN 
TRIUNE  PERSONALITY  OF  THE  LORD 
JESUS    CHRIST. 

SCRIPTURE    PROOFS 

In  Luke  1 :31,  32,  35  the  angel  Gabriel  declares 
to  the  Virgin  Mary,  of  her  Divinely  conceived 
Son:  "And  [thou]  shalt  call  His  Name  Jesus. 
.  .  .  He  shall  be  called  the  Son  of  the  Most 
High.  .  .  .  The  Son  of  God." 

In  Matthew  3:16,  17  it  is  stated:  "And 
Jesus,  when  He  was  baptized,  went  up  straight- 


100  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

way  out  of  the  water;  and,  lo,  the  heavens 
were  opened  unto  Him;  and  He  saw  the  Spirit 
of  God  descending  hke  a  dove,  and  lighting 
upon  Him:  and  lo  a  Voice  from  heaven, 
saying,  This  is  My  beloved  Son,  in  Whom  I 
am  well  pleased." 

In  John  1:29,  34  we  read:  "And  on  the 
morrow  he  (John  the  Baptist)  seeth  Jesus 
coming  unto  him,  and  saith.  Behold,  the  Lamb 
of  God,  that  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world! 
.  .  .  And  I  have  seen,  and  have  borne  witness 
that  this  is  the   Son  of  God." 

In  Hebrews  4:14  it  is  said:  "Seeing  then 
that  we  have  a  great  high  priest,  that  is  passed 
into  the  heavens,  Jesus  the  Son  of  God,  let  us 
hold  fast  our  profession." 

In  I.  John  5:^^  the  question  is  asked  and 
answered:  "Who  is  he  that  overcometh  the  world, 
but  he  that  believeth  that  Jesus  is  the  Son  of 
God?" 

In  I.  John  4:15  John  the  apostle  states: 
"Whosoever  shall  confess  that  Jesus  is  the  Son 
of  God,  God  dwelleth  in  him,  and  he  in  God." 

In  John   20:30,   31    it   is   said:   "And   many 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  101 

signs  truly  did  Jesus  in  the  presence  of  His 
disciples,  which  are  not  written  in  this  book. 
But  these  are  written,  that  ye  might  believe 
that  Jesus  is  the  Son  of  God;  and  that 
believing  ye  might  have  life  in  His  Name." 

In  Matthew  16:13-17  we  read:  "When 
Jesus  came  unto  the  coasts  of  Cesarea  Philippi, 
He  asked  His  disciples,  Whom  do  men  say 
that  I  the  Son  of  Man  am? 

"And  they  said.  Some  say  that  Thou  art 
John  the  Baptist;  some  Elijah,  and  some 
Jeremiah,  or  one  of  the  prophets. 

"He  saith  unto  them,  But  whom  say  ye  that 
I  am? 

"Simon-Peter  answered  and  said,  Thou  art 
the  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living  God. 

"And  Jesus  answered  and  said  unto  him. 
Blessed  art  thou,  Simon-Bar-Jonah;  for  flesh 
and  blood  hath  not  revealed  it  unto  thee,  but 
My  Father  which  is  in  heaven." 

In  John  19:5-7  we  read:  "Then  came 
Jesus  forth,  wearing  the  crown  of  thorns, 
and  the  purple  robe.  And  Pilate  saith 
unto    them,     Behold     the     man!       When     the 


102  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

chief  priests  therefore  and  officers  saw  Him, 
they  cried  out,  saying,  Crucify  Him, 
crucify  Him!  Pilate  saith  unto  them, 
Take  ye  Him,  and  crucify  Him;  for  I  find 
no  fault  in  Him.  The  Jews  answered  him, 
We  have  a  law,  and  by  our  law  He  ought 
to  die,  because  He  made  Himself  the  Son  of 
God." 

In  the  foregoing  quotations  we  have  the 
testimony  of  "the  Father,"  at  Jesus'  baptism; 
of  "the  Son,"  Jesus  Himself,  in  corrobora- 
tion of  Peter's  testimony;  of  "the  Holy 
Spirit,"  through  Peter;  of  the  angel  Gabriel, 
before  Jesus'  birth  of  the  Virgin  Mary;  of 
John  the  Baptist,  at  Jesus'  baptism;  of  John 
the  apostle,  in  his  Gospel  and  Epistles;  of 
the  writer  of  Hebrews;  and  of  the  Jews,  in 
testifying  of  Jesus'  own  statement  that  he  was 
the  Son  of  God;  that  Jesus  "the  Son  of  Man" 
is  "the  Son  of  God." 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  103 


THEREFORE  "THE  NAME"  OF  "JESUS"— 
in  this  connection— IS  THE  PERSONAL  "NAME" 
OF  "THE  SON"  IN  THE  TRIUNE  NAME 
OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST,  EVEN  AS 
"THE  DIVINE-HUMAN  PERSON"  OF  "THE 
SON"  IS,  IN  HIS  DIVINITY,  INCARNATE 
IN,  AND,  IN  HIS  HUMANITY,  THE 
INCARNATION  OF,  THE  DIVINE-HUMAN 
TRIUNE  PERSONALITY  OF  THE  LORD 
JESUS    CHRIST. 


104  WHAT   IS    "the   name' 


v^v-- 


"NOW  THE  LORD 

[JESUS,  THE  CHRIST] 

IS  THE  SPIRIT." 

II.  Corinthians  3:17 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  105 


"THE  NAME"  of  "THE  HOLY  SPIRIT," 

THE  THIRD  NAME  IN  THE  TRIUNE  NAME 

OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST,  IS  "THE  NAME" 

OF  "CHRIST." 

THIS    NAME 

— in   this    connection — 

IS  THE  PERSONAL  "NAME"  OF  "THE  HOLY 
SPIRIT"  IN  THE  TRIUNE  "NAME"  OF  THE 
LORD  JESUS  CHRIST,  EVEN  AS  "THE 
DIVINE  PERSON"  OF  "THE  HOLY  SPIRIT" 
IS  OF,  INCARNATE  IN,  AND  PROCEEDS 
FROM  THE  DIVINE-HUMAN  TRIUNE  PER- 
SONALITY   OF    THE    LORD    JESUS    CHRIST. 

SCRIPTURE    PROOFS 

In  John  14:26  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  says: 
"But  the  Comforter,  the  Holy  Spirit,  Whom 
the  Father  will  send  in  My  Name,  He  shall 
teach  you  all  things,  and  bring  all  things  to 
your  remembrance,  whatsoever  I  have  said 
unto  you." 

As    has    already   been    shown — in   the   inter- 


IOC  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

pretation  of  "the  Name"  of  "the  Father"  as 
"the  Name"  of  "the  Lord"— the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  came  (literallj^  bearing,  and  sjiiritually 
included)  in  His  Father's  "Name":  which — 
as  has  been  clearly  and  positively  shown — is 
"the  Name"  of  "the  Lord"  ("the  Name"  of 
"the  Lord"  being,  in  a  literal  sense,  the  Personal 
designation:  and,  in  a  spiritual  sense,  "the 
Person"  or  "Spirit"  of  "the  Lord"). 

In  the  above  quotation,  from  John  14:26, 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  declares  that  "the 
Father"  will  send  "the  Holy  Spirit"  (liter- 
ally bearing,  and  spiritually  included)  in 
His  "Name":  which — in  this  connection — as 
shall  be  clearly  and  positively  shown  "accord- 
ing to  the  Scriptures" — is  collectively  expressed 
in  the  Messianic  "Name"  of  "the  Christ,"  or 
of  "Christ"  ("the  Name"  of  "the  Christ,"  or  of 
"Christ,"  being,  in  a  literal  sense,  the  collective 
Messianic  Personal  designation:  and,  in  a  spirit- 
ual sense,  the  collective  Messianic  "Person,"  or 
"Spirit,"  of  "the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ"). 

For  as  "the  Lord"  is  "the  Father,"  and  as 
"Jesus"  is  "the  Son,"  and  both  are  united  in 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  107 

"the  Name"  and  in  "the  Personahty"  of 
"the  Lord  Jesus,  the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ" 
(John  10:22-38);  so  "the  Spirit  of  the 
Father"  (Matthew  10:20),  and  "the  Spirit 
of  His  Son"  (Galatians  4:6),  are  essentially 
united  in  "the  Holy  Spirit"  (Ephesians  4:4), 
Who  comes  in  "the  Name"  of,  and  is  "the 
Spirit"  of,  "the  Lord  Jesus,  the  Christ,"  or  of 
"Christ." 

The  Scriptural  accuracy  of  this  interpre- 
tation is  clearly  shown  in  the  words  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  recorded  in  John  14:23: 
"If  a  man  love  Me,  he  will  keep  My  words: 
and  My  Father  will  love  him,  and  We  ("the 
Father"— "the  Lord,"  and  "the  Son"— "Jesus," 
in  "the  Spirit"  of  "the  Lord  Jesus,  the 
Christ,"  or  of  "Christ")  will  come  unto  him, 
and  make  Our  abode  with  him." 

(Essentially  "the  Father  is  Spirit,  the  Son 
is  Spirit,  and  Spirit  is  the  unity  of  the  Father 
and  the  Son." — "Pulpit  Commentary,"  St.  John, 
page  170.) 

("The  Name  Christ  embodied  (and  em- 
bodies)   in    itself    the    Father    who    gave,    and 


108  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

the  Son  who  received,  the  unction  of  the  Holy 
Spirit."— Basil,  "de  Spiritu  S.") 

Therefore  in  the  collective  Messianic  "Name" 
of  "Christ"  is  summed  up  and  included  all 
of  the  Spiritual  completeness  of  the  God- 
head (or  "Divine  Personality")  ;  and  that  is 
"the  Name"  in  which  "the  Holy  Spirit" 
comes  to  all  of  God's  children:  and  in  J'the 
Name"  of  "Christ"  He  dwells  in  everv  believ- 


ing heart,  as  all  true  Christians  well  know! 

Paul  gives  expression  to  that  experience  in 
Galatians  2:20:  "Christ  (obviously  in  "the 
Spirit")    liveth  in  me." 

And  in  Colossians  1:27  he  states:  "God 
would  make  known  among  the  Gentiles  what 
is  the  riches  of  the  glory  of  this  mystery:  which 
is  Christ  (in  "the  Spirit")  in  j^ou,  the  hope  of 
glory." 

Again,  in  Romans  8:9-11,  Paul  states: 
"But  ye  are  not  in  the  flesh,  but  in  the  Spirit, 
if  so  be  that  the  Spirit  of  God  dwell  in  you. 
But  if  any  man  hath  not  the  Spirit  of  Christ, 
he  is  none  of  His.     But  if  Christ  is  in  vou,  the 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  109 

body  is  dead  because  of  sin:  but  the  spirit  is 
life  because  of  righteousness." 

In  the  Bible  Commentary,  New  Testament, 
Vol.  3,  page  150,  it  is  stated:  "It  is  clear  from 
the  connection  that  'the  Spirit  of  Christ'  is 
the  same  as  'the  Spirit  of  God,'  i.e.,  'the  Holy 
Spirit,'  Who  is  not  only  sent  by  'Christ,'  but 
is  so  essentially  one  with  'Christ,'  that  His 
indwelhng  is,  in  the  next  clause,  described  as 
'Christ  in  you.'  It  furthermore  appears,  that 
to  have  'the  Spirit  of  Christ'  (verse  9)  is  to 
have  'Christ'  Himself  dwelling  within  the 
heart.  (Compare  Ephesians  3:16,  17:  'To  be 
strengthened  with  might  by  His  Spirit  in  the 
inner  man,  that  Christ  may  dwell  in  your 
hearts  by  faith.') " 

Peter  bears  no  uncertain  testimony  in  his 
identification  of  "the  Holy  Spirit"  with  "the 
Name"  and  "the  Spirit"  of  "Christ";  as  may 
be  noted  in  I.  Peter  1:10,  11:  "Concerning 
which  salvation  the  prophets  sought  and 
searched  diligently,  who  prophesied  of  the  grace 
that  should  come  unto  you;  searching  what 
time  or  what  manner  of  time  the  Spirit  of  Christ 


110  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

whicli  was  in  them  did  point  unto  when  He 
testified  beforehand  the  sufferings  of  Christ  (of 
"the  Spirit  of  Christ"  incarnate)  and  the 
glories  that  should  follow." 

In  these  words  Peter  actually  names  "the 
Holy  Spirit"  "the  Spirit  of  Christ"! 

"THE  SPIRIT"  OF  REGENERATION 

"The  Spirit"  of  Regeneration  (or  of  "the 
New  Birth")  'is  undoubtedly  "the  Spirit"  of 
"Christ,"  or  "Christ"  in  "the  Spirit":  as  note 
John  3:5,  where  we  read:  "Except  a  man  be 
born  of  water,  and  of  the  Spirit,  he  cannot  enter 
into  the  Kingdom  of  God." 

"For" — as  stated  in  Galatians  3:27 — "as  many 
of  you  as  have  been  baptized  into  Christ  (into 
"the  Name"  and  "the  Spirit"  of  "Christ")  have 
put  on  Christ": 

"Therefore" — as  stated  in  II.  Corinthians 
5:17 — "if  any  one  be  in  Christ,  (having  "put 
on  Christ")  the?^  is  a  new  creation;  old 
things  have  passed  away;  behold,  all  things 
have  become  new." 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  111 

Paul  makes  this  statement  immediately  after 
stating  in  II.  Corinthians  5:16:  "Though  we 
have  known  Christ  according  to  the  flesh,  yet 
now  henceforth  know  we  Him  so  no  more." 
"Christ"  in  "the  Spirit"  certainly  appears  to  be 
Paul's  thought  here! 

In  I.  Corinthians  12:13  we  read:  "For  in 
one  Spirit  (in  "the  Spirit"  of  "Christ")  were 
we  all  baptized  into  one  body." 

"So" — as  stated  in  Romans  12:5 — "we,  being 
many,  are  one  body  in  Christ  (in  "the  Name" 
and  in  "the  Spirit"  of  "Christ")  and  every  one 
members  one  of  another." 

Again,  Paul,  "steward  of  the  mysteries  of 
God,"  "according  to  the  wisdom  given  unto 
him,"  says,  in  Colossians  1:21-24:  "And  you 
who  once  were  alienated  and  enemies  in  your 
minds  by  wicked  works,  yet  now  hath  He 
reconciled  in  the  body  of  his  flesh  ("God  was  in 
Christ,  reconciling  the  world  unto  Himself": 
II.  Corinthians  5:19)  through  death,  to  present 
you  holy  and  unblamable  and  unreprovable 
in  His  sight:  if  indeed  ye  abide  in  the  faith 
grounded  and  settled,  and  are  not  moved  away 


112  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

from  the  hope  of  the  Gospel  which  ye  have 
heard,  which  was  preached  in  the  whole  creation 
under  the  heavens:  whereof  I  Paul  am  made 
a  minister:  who  now  rejoice  in  my  sufferings 
for  you,  and  fill  up  that  which  is  lacking  of  the 
afflictions  of  Christ  in  my  flesh,  for  His  body's 
sake,  which  is  the  Church." 

It  is  the  Church  of  Christ  because  it  is  the 
Collective  Body  of  Christ  on  earth — the  Col- 
lective Temple  of  Christ — indwelt  by  "the 
Spirit"  of  "Christ":  Who  is  "the  Holy 
Spirit,"  coming  and  dwelling  in  His  Church  in 
"the  Name"  and  in  "the  Spirit"  of  "Christ." 

"The  Spirit"  of  "Christ"  is  of,  incarnate  in, 
and  proceeds  from  the  Glorified  Body  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  on  high:  from  where,  "by 
the  right  hand  of  God  exalted,  and  having 
received  from  the  Father  the  promise  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,"  He  pours  (or  "breathes"?)  forth 
His  Spirit— Who  is  "the  Spirit"  of  the  Triune 
God — upon,  within,  and  through  all  who  believe 
in  and  call  upon  His  Holy  "Name." 

(All  of  this  is,  at  least  prophetically,  illus- 
trated and  interpreted  by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  113 

as   previously   mentioned;   and   as   recorded   in 
John  20:21,  22.) 

Therefore  "Christ"  in  "the  Spirit"  is  present 
with  His  people  on  earth:  for  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  declares,  in  Matthew  18:20:  "Where  two 
or  three  are  gathered  together  in  My  Name 
(in  "the  Name"  and  in  "the  Spirit"  of  "the 
Lord  Jesus,  the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ"),  there 
am  I  in  the  midst  of  them." 

Or,  as  stated — in  words  already  quoted — 
in  John  14:23:  "If  a  man  love  Me,  he  will 
keep  My  words:  and  My  Father  will  love  him, 
and  We  ("the  Father"— "the  Lord,"  and  "the 
Son"— "Jesus,"  in  "the  Spirit"  of  "the  Lord 
Jesus,  the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ")  will  come 
unto  him,  and  make  Our  abode  with  him." 

Let  the  reader  note  the  fact  that  in  these 
words  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  speaks  of  the 
collective  coming  of  "the  Father"  and  "the 
Son,"  which  coming  is  obviously  in  "the  Spirit" 
of  "the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ." 

While  "the  Name"  of  "Christ"  is  used  in 
Scripture  to  designate  "the  Christ"  incarnate, 
as  well  as  "the  Christ"  in  "the  Spirit,"  it  has 


114  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

been  principally  applied,  as  all  Christians  know, 
— and  with  pecidiar  significance,  as  has  been 
herein  shown — since  the  day  of  Pentecost,  to 
"the  Christ"  Who,  ever  since  that  day,  has  been 
present  with  His  people  on  earth  as  "Christ" 
in  "the  Spirit"! 

Some  one  has  truly  said:  "The  Advent  of 
the  Spirit  was  the  Spiritual  Advent  of  Christ": 
or,  as  may  be  said  with  equal  truth,  the  Advent 
of  "Christ"  in  "the  Spirit"! 

"The  Christ"  Who  is  with,  and  in  the  hearts 
of,  His  people  to-day  is  undoubtedh^  "Christ" 
in  "the  Spirit":  Who  is  "the  Spirit"  of 
"Christ":  Who  is  "the  Holy  Spirit":  Who 
includes  "the  Spirit  of  the  Father"  (Matthew 
10:20),  and  "the  Spirit  of  His  Son"  (Gala- 
tians  4:6),  and  Who,  "proceeding  from  the 
Father" — "the  Lord,"  in  and  through  and 
from  "the  Son" — "Jesus,"  comes  to  His  children 
in  "the  Name,"  and  in  "the  Spirit,"  of  "the  Lord 
Jesus,  the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ." 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  11.5 


THEREFORE  "THE  NAME"  OF  "CHRIST" 
—in  this  connection— IS  THE  PERSONAL  "NAME" 
OF  "THE  HOLY  SPIRIT"  IN  THE  TRIUNE 
"NAME"  OF  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST,  EVEN 
AS  "THE  DIVINE  PERSON"  OF  "THE  HOLY 
SPIRIT"  IS  OF,  INCARNATE  IN,  AND 
PROCEEDS  FROM  THE  DIVINE-HUMAN 
TRIUNE  PERSONALITY  OF  THE  LORD 
JESUS    CHRIST. 


116  WHAT    IS    "the    name' 


"And  every  tongue — even  of  His  enemies — 
confess  that  Jesus  Christ  is  Lord — Jehovah; 
not  now  in  the  form  of  a  sen^ant,  but  enthroned 
IN  the  glory  of  God  the  Father." 

Phil.  2:11.  John  Wesley. 


WHAT    IS    "the   name"  117 


'THE  NAME"  of  "THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST" 

is  "THE  NAME"  of  THE  TRIUNE  GOD 

"He  is  The  True  God" 

I.  John  5:20. 


118  WHAT    IS    "the    name' 


THEREFORE  THE  TRIUNE  "NAME"  OF  "THE  LORD 
JESUS  CHRIST"  IS  THE  DIVINE  TRIUNE  "NAME"  OF 
THE  INCARNATE  TRIUNE  GOD:  BECAUSE  IT  IS  THE 
TRIUNE  "NAME"  OF  THE  DIVINE  TRIUNE  "PERSON- 
ALITY" OF,  INCARNATE  IN,  AND  PROCEEDING  FROM 
HIM  WHO  IS  "THE  SON  OF  GOD"  AND  "THE  SON  OF 
MAN'— "VERY  GOD  AND  VERY  MAN":  AND  THAT 
DIVINE  TRIUNE  "PERSONALITY"  CONSISTS  OF  "THE 
FATHER"— "THE  LORD";  AND  OF  "THE  SON"— 
"JESUS";  AND  OF  "THE  HOLY  SPIRIT"— WHO  IS  "THE 
SPIRIT"  OF  "THE  LORD  JESUS,  THE  CHRIST,"  OR  OF 
"CHRIST";  AND  WHO  CONSEQUENTLY  COMES  IN,  AND 
BEARS,  THE  COLLECTIVE  MESSIANIC  "NAME"  OF 
"THE  LORD  JESUS":  WHICH  IS  "THE  NAME"  OF  "THE 
CHRIST,"  OR  OF  "CHRIST."  AND  THESE  "THREE 
PERSONS  OF  ONE  DIVINE  ESSENCE  (OR  "NAME")  IN 
THE  GODHEAD"  WHILE  ETERNALLY  "THREE"  IN 
THE  TRINITY,  ARE,  ALSO,  ETERNALLY  "ONE"  IN 
THE  UNITY  OF  THE  DIVINE  TRIUNE  "NAME"  AND 
THE  DIVINE-HUMAN  TRIUNE  "PERSONALITY"  OF 
"THE   LORD  JESUS  CHRIST." 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  119 


"THE      SECRET      OF      THE      LORD" 
REVEALED 

This  secret  of  the  Divine  Triune  "Name" 
and  Divine-Human  Triune  "PersonaUty"  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ — "the  Son  of  God" 
and  "the  Son  of  Man"— "Very  God  and  Very 
Man":  appears  to  have  been  possessed  by  the 
apostles  and  the  AjDostoHc  Church,  and  to  have 
been  lost  to  the  Church  and  to  the  knowledge 
of  men  at,  or  about,  the  close  of  the  Apostolic 
Age. 

It  is  now — by  the  grace  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ — restored  to  the  knowledge  of  His 
Church,  of  His  beloved  people  the  Jews,  and  of 
the  World! 

In  words  spoken  and  written  of  the  mysteries 
of  God  in  ancient  times,  the  writer  hereof 
would  say:  "But  as  for  me,  this  secret  is  not 
revealed  to  me  for  any  wisdom  that  I  have 
more  than  any  living"   (Daniel  2:30),  but  that 


120  WHAT    IS    "the    name" 

all  men  might  "know  the  Lord,  from  the  least 
of  them  unto  the  greatest  of  them"  (Jeremiah 
31:34);  and  hecause  "that  in  (or  "mito"?) 
THE  Name  of  Jesus  every  knee  should  bow; 
.  .  .  ;  and  that  every  tongue  should  confess 
that  Jesus  Christ  is  Lord  in  the  glory  of 
God  the  Father"  (Pliihppians  2:10,  11); 
"For  the  Son  of  INIan  shall  come  in  the  glory 
of  His  Father,  with  His  angels;  and  then  shall 
He  reward  every  man  according  to  his  works" 
(Matthew  16:27).  Therefore  "the  grace  of 
God  hath  appeared  unto  all  men,  teaching  us 
that,  denying  ungodliness  and  worldly  lusts,  we 
should  live  soberly  and  righteously  and  godly 
in  this  present  age;  looking  for  that  blessed  hope 
and  appearing  of  the  glory  of  our  great  God 
and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ;  Who  gave  Himself 
for  us  ("God  was  in  Christ,  reconciling  the  world 
unto  Himself,"  II.  Corinthians  5:19),  that  He 
might  purify  unto  Himself  a  people  for  His 
own  possession,  zealous  of  good  works."  Titus 
2:11-14.  R.  V. 


WHAT   IS      THE   NAME"  121 

"And  we  know  that  the  Son  of  God  is 
come,  and  hath  given  us  an  understanding, 
that  we  might  know  Him  that  is  true,  and 
we  are  in  Him  that  is  true,  in  His  Son 
Jesus  Christ.  This  ("He")  is  the  True 
God,  and  eternal  life." 

I.  John  .5:20. 


"And  after  eight  days  again  His  disciples 
were  within,  and  Thomas  with  them;  then, 
came  Jesus,  the  doors  being  shut,  and  stood  in 
the  midst,  and  said  Peace  be  unto  you. 
Then  saith  He  to  Thomas,  Reach  hither  thy 
finger,  and  behold  my  hands;  and  reach  hither 
thy  hand,  and  thrust  it  into  my  side:  and  be 
not  faithless,  but  believing. 

"And  Thomas  answered  and  said  unto  Him, 
My  Lord  and  my  God  ! 

"Jesus  saith  unto  him,  Thomas,  because  thou 
hast  seen  me,  thou  hast  believed:  blessed 
are  they  that  have  not  seen,  and  yet  have 
believed."  John  20:26-29. 


122  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


"THESE    THINGS    SAID    ISAIAH, 

WHEN    HE    SAW   HIS    GLORY,    AND 

SPAKE    OF    HIM. " 

John  12:41. 

"In  the  year  that  king  Uzziah  died  I  saw  also 
the  Lord  sitting  upon  a  throne,  high  and  hfted 
up,  and  His  train  filled  the  temple. 

"Above  it  stood  the  seraphim:  each  one  had 
six  wings;  with  twain  he  covered  his  face,  with 
twain  he  covered  his  feet,  and  with  twain  he  did 

fly- 

"And  one  cried  unto  another,  and  said.  Holy, 
Holy,  Holy,  is  the  Lord  of  hosts:  the  whole 
earth  is  full  of  His  glory."     Isaiah  6:1-3. 


"But  though  He  (the  Lord  Jesus  Christ)  had 
done  so  many  miracles  before  them,  yet  they 
believed  not  in  Him: 

"That  the  saying  of  Isaiah  the  prophet  might 
be   fulfilled,   which  he  spake:   Lord,  who  hath 


WHAT    IS      THE    NAME"  123 

believed  our  report?  and  to  whom  is  the  arm  of 
the  Lord  revealed? 

"Therefore  they  could  not  believe,  because  that 
Isaiah  had  said  again,  He  hath  blinded  their 
eyes,  and  hardened  their  heart;  that  they  should 
not  see  with  their  eyes,  nor  understand  with 
their  heart,  and  be  converted  (or  "turn"),  and 
I  should  heal  them. 

"These  things  said  Isaiah,  when  he  saw  His 
glory,  and  spake  of  Him. 

"Nevertheless  among  the  chief  rulers  also 
many  believed  in  Him;  but  because  of  the 
Pharisees  they  did  not  confess  Him,  lest  they 
should  be  put  out  of  the  synagogue;  for  they 
loved  the  praise  of  men  more  than  the  praise 
of  God."  John  12:37-43. 

In  these  words  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is 
clearly  and  positively  identified  with  "the  Lord 
of  hosts"  of  Isaiah's  vision. 

From  Apostolic  days  orthodox  Christian 
belief  has  held  that  the  glory  of  "the  Lord  of 
hosts"  of  Isaiah's  vision  was  none  other  than  the 
glory  of  the  Triune  God ! 

"The  glory  of  the  Ever-Blessed  Trinity  ap- 


124  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

peared  to  Isaiah,  when  he  heard  the  angelic 
Holy,  Holy,  Holy  (Isaiah  6:3)  ;  and  the  glory 
of  the  Trinity  is  here  called  the  glory 
of  Christ,  because  Christ  is  God.  (Cyril). — 
There  is  a  remarkable  resemblance  to  this 
passage  in  the  Book  of  Revelation  (Rev.  4:8- 
11,  compared  with  Rev.  5:12-14),  where  the 
glory  ascribed  to  the  Holy  Trinity  is  ascribed 
and  paid  to  Christ;  and  is  therefore  a  clear  evi- 
dence of  His  Divinity." — "Lange's  Commen- 
tary," John,  page  397. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  125 

"THE    NAME" 

"Among     the      creatures, 

they  and  their  names 

are   two   different   things : 

but  respecting  the  blessed  God, 

HIMSELF     IS     HIS     NAME, 

and     HIS     NAME     IS     HIMSELF." 


In  concluding  this  introductory  study  of 
"THE  NAME  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son, 
and  of  the  Holy  Spirit,"  the  writer  begs  to 
submit  that  he  has  been  Divinely  enabled, 
"according  to  the  Scriptures,"  to  clearly  and 
conclusively  show,  in  the'  words  of  Jeremy 
Taylor,  that  God  "hath  changed  the  Ineffable 
Name  into  a  Name  utterable  by  man,  and  desir- 
able by  all  the  world:  the  majesty  is  all  arrayed 
in  robes  of  mercy,  the  tetragkammaton,  or 
adorable  mystery  of  the  patriarchs,  is  made  fit 
for  pronunciation  and  expression  when  it  be- 
cometh  the  Name  of  the  Lord's  Christ" : — which 
is  "THE  NAME"— both  hterally  and  spirit- 
ually—of "THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST." 

It  has  also  been  shown  that  "THE  NAME" 
of  "THE  TRIUNE  GOD"— which  is  "THE 


126  \\'HAT  IS  "the  name" 

NAISIE  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of 
the  Holy  Spirit":  those  "THREE  PERSOXS 
OF  ONE  DIVINE  ESSENCE  (OR 
"NAME")  IN  THE  GODHEAD"— is 
"THE  NAME"  both  hterally  and  spiritually— 
of  "THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST"  para- 
BOLICALLY  EXPRESSED  in  a  "baptismal  formula" 
given  before  the  day  of  Pentecost,  and  subject 
to  the  full  and  complete  interpretation  thereof 
which  was  given  that  day  by  the  Lord  Jesus 
Clii'ist  in  His  Spirit  (Who  is  "the  Spirit  of 
Christ,"  and  "the  Spirit  of  Truth,"  and  "the 
Holy  Spirit") — through  the  apostle  Peter, 
to  "as  many  as  received  Him,"  "in  the  Spirit," 
"even  to  them  that  believed  in  (or  "into")  His 
Name";  and  who  were  baptized  into  that 
"Name"  both  in  water  and  in  "Spirit"; 
and  through  that  belief  and  baptism  "into  ("the 
Name"  and  "the  Spirit"  of)  Christ,"  they  "put 
on  Christ":  (both  in  "Name"  and  in  "Spirit") ; 
and  "in  the  Name"  and  "in  the  Spirit"  of  "the 
Lord  Jesus,  the  Christ,"  or  of  "Christ,"  they 
were  made  at  one  with — and  "ahve  unto" — 
"God  in  Christ,"  and  "with  Christ  in  God." 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  127 

"But    ye    were    washed     ("He    saved    us,    by    the 

washing    of    regeneration    and    renewing    of   the    Holy 

Spirit"),  but  ye  were  sanctified,  but  ye  were  justified, 

IN  THE  NAME  of  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 

and  IN  THE   SPIRIT  of  our  GOD." 

I.    Corinthians   6:11.   R.   V. 

Titus  3:5,  A.  V.  and  R.  V. 

"ONE  LORD,  ONE  FAITH,  ONE  BAPTISM." 
Ephesians   4:5. 

"For  as  many  of  you  as  have  been  baptized 
into  Christ  have  put  on  Christ." 

Galatians  3:27 

"Therefore  if  any  one  he  in  Christ,  there 
is  a  new  creation:  the  old  things  are  passed 
away;  behold,  all  things  are  become  new:  and 
all  things  are  of  God,  who  hath  reconciled  us 
to  Himself  through  Jesus  Christ,  and  hath  given 
to  us  the  ministry  of  reconciliation:  namely, 
that  GOD  WAS  IN  CHRIST  reconciling  the 
world  unto  Himself,  not  imputing  their  tres- 
passes to  them,  and  hath  committed  to  us  the 
word  of  reconciliation." 

II.  Corinthians  5:17-19. 


128  WHAT  IS  "the  name" 

"Namely — The  sum  of  which  is  God — the 
whole  Godhead,  but  more  eminently  God  the 
Father — was  in  Christ,  reconciling  the  world — 
which  was  before  at  enmity  with  God — to  Him- 
self, so  taking  away  that  enmity,  which  could  no 
otherwise  be  removed  than  by  the  blood  of  the 
Son  of  God." 

— John  Wesley,  in  his  "Explanatory 
Notes  upon  The  New  Testament."  Page  458. 


WHAT  IS  "the  name"  129 


"I  say  the  acknowledgment  of  God  in  Christ, 
Accepted  by  thy  reason,  solves  for  thee 
All  problems  in  this  earth  and  out  of  it. 
And  hath  so  far  advanced  thee  to  be  wise." 

— Robert  Browning. 


130  WHAT    IS    "the    name' 


"THE     ONE     FOUNDATION" 

'For     other     foundation     can     no     man     lay 

than    that    which    is    laid, 

which  is  Jesus,  the  Christ." 

I.   Corinthians   3:11. 


"There    is    one    body,    and    one    spirit, 

even    as    also    ye    were    called 

in  ONE  HOPE  of  your  calling; 

ONE  Lord,  one  faith,  one  baptism 

ONE  God  and  Father  of  all, 

WHO  is  over  all,  and  through  all,  and  in  all." 

Ephesians  4:4-6 


"The  Church's  one  foundation 

Is  Jesus  Christ  her  Lord; 
She  is  His  new  creation 

By  water  and  the  word. 
From  heaven  He  came  and  sought  her 

To  be  His  holy  bride; 
With  His  own  blood  He  bought  her 

And  for  her  life  He  died. 


WHAT    IS    "the    name"  131 

"Elect  from  every  nation, 

Yet  one  o'er  all  the  earth, 
Her  charter  of  salvation 

One   Lord,    one    faith,    one    birth. 
One  holy  Name  she  blesses, 

Partakes  one  holy  food. 
And  to  ONE  HOPE  she  presses. 

With  every  grace  endued. 

"Though  with  a  scornful  wonder 

Men  see  her  sore  opprest. 
By  schisms   rent  asunder. 

By  heresies  distrest; 
Yet  saints  their  watch  are  keeping, 

Their  cry  goes  up,  "How  long?" 
And  soon  the  night  of  weeping 

Shall  be  the  morn  of  song. 

"Yet  she  on  earth  hath  union 

With  God  the  three  in  one. 
And  mystic  sweet  communion 

With  those  whose  rest  is  won; 
O  happy  ones   and  holy ! 

Lord,  give  us  grace  that  we 
Like  them,  the  meek  and  lowly. 

On  high  may  dwell  with  Thee." 


132  WHAT  IS  "the  name' 


THE  WORDS  OF   THE  LORD  JESUS 
CHRIST 

"And  now  I  am  no  more  in  the  world,  but 
these  are  in  the  world,  and  I  come  to  Thee. 
Holy  Father,  keep  them  in  Thy  Name  which 
Thou  hast  given  Me,  that  they  may  be  ONE, 
even  as  We  are. 

"Wliile  I  was  with  them,  I  kept  them  in  Thy 
Name  which  Thou  hast  given  ]\Ie ;  and  I  guarded 
them,  and  not  one  of  them  perished,  but  the  son 
of  perdition;  that  the  Scripture  might  be  ful- 
filled. .  . 

"Neither  pray  I  for  these  alone,  but  for  them 
also  which  shall  believe  in  Me  through  their 
word;  that  they  all  may  be  ONE:  as  Thou  art 
in  Me,  and  I  in  Thee,  that  they  also  may  be  ONE 
in  us :  that  the  world  may  believe  that  Thou  hast 
sent  Me." 

John  17:11,  12,  20,  21. 


WHAT    IS      THE   NAME"  133 

"HE   THAT   SEETH   ME    SEETH   HIM   THAT 

SENT    ME." 

John  12:45. 

"I  AND  MY  FATHER  ARE  ONE." 

John  10:30. 


"The  grace  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and 
the  love  of  God  ("which  is  in  Christ  Jesus 
our  Lord."),  and  the  communion  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  ("which  He  poured  out 
upon  us  richly,  through  Jesus  Christ  our 
Saviour") ,  be  with  you  all." 

II.  Corinthians  13:14. 
Romans  8:39. 
Titus  3:5,  6. 


"We  shall  see  Him,"  in  our  nature, 
Seated  on  His  lofty  throne. 

Loved,  adored,  by  every  creature. 
Owned  as  God,  and  God  alone." 


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